Pawah (Pa Wa)
Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) at
Saw Durmay (Po Min) in Myanmar

Biography
dead elephant ☨ ⚪ Pawah (Pa Wa)  dead elephant
Pawa and the owner Dr. Dr. Saw Durmay Po Min, president of the loyal Karen association of Burma-India. William Buckles Woodcock collection
Pawa and the owner Dr. Dr. Saw Durmay Po Min, president of the loyal Karen association of Burma-India. William Buckles Woodcock collection

Identification


Description

Species:Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
Sex and age: 10 years old
Origin
Born:* 1918 wild
Birth place: in Myanmar unspecified location
Capture: 1919
Death
Dead: 1928
Death reason: unknown:
Locations - owners
Present / last location:Saw Durmay (Po Min), in Myanmar

Date of arrival

1928-00-00Saw Durmay (Po Min)
from London Zoo

1927-00-00London Zoo
from Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus

1927-00-00Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus
from London Zoo

1926-00-00London Zoo
from Saw Durmay (Po Min)

Record history
History of updates2010-05-10

Latest document update2022-04-08 06:34:25
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† Pawah (Pa Wa) is a dead Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), , who died 1928 at Saw Durmay (Po Min), in Myanmar, .

Origin

Pawah (Pa Wa) was born wild 1918 at Myanmar unspecified location, captured 1919 .


Comments / pictures

Pawah (Pa Wa) in Saw Durmay (Po Min)
One of the most interesting sights I ever saw was the albino elephant Pa Wa with RBBB in 1927, this was on the lake front in Chicago. Standing before this exhibit I could hear the chumps around me wondering why they had one of the elephants “scrubbed up”. No matter how well cared for and clean an elephant is, to the public he looks dirty.
A portion of a letter from Bill Woodcock (1/8/61) to Chappie Fox.

Caught by, and owned by Dr. Saw D. Po Min, from the Karen tribe, this elephant is stated as being a white elephant, eventuellay an albino, since it was said to have had pink eyes.

Although there is no mention of Pawa in London, she (?) spent a few months
at RP en route to America in 1926. I read somewhere that this elephant
stopped off again in England on the way back to India in 1927/28. Pawas
keeper San Dwe was the man responsible for the infamous "Elephant House
Murder" of Sayaid Ali in 1928 (see Bartlett Society newsletter, September
2004 for more details).
Bob Cline, 2010

Pawa was the last white elephant exhibited in America. John Ringling leased him for xhibition on the Ringling Bros.and Barnum & Bailey show during the 1927 season from his owner, Dr. Saw D. Po Min. Dr. Po Min escorted the elephant along with half a dozen Burmese attendants. Pawah was a genuine albino, and the best appearing white elephant of all those that had toured with circuses, starting with the first in 1884. "He was always exhibited with a very dark elephant to profit by the contrast. Pawah and his master both died, it is understood, after their return to their native land the following yearC. G. Sturtevant, Elephants of the Circus, White Tops magazine, 1931

Reference list

References

Koehl, Dan, (2024). Pawah (Pa Wa), Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) located at Saw Durmay (Po Min) in Myanmar. Elephant Encyclopedia, available online retrieved 29 March 2024 at https://www.elephant.se/database2.php?elephant_id=2847. (archived at the Wayback machine)


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