Chitra Katha photo poster No. 30: Stone Age find at Rangamati (Bengali, Dacca)
A Bengali-language photo page for USIS Dacca on American anthropologist Dr. Robert H. Dyson's three months among the Chakma, Mogh, Mro and Kyang peoples of the Chittagong Hill Tracts. Photographs show him with a weaver, village headmen, a stone axe he found at Rangamati, pottery and a Buddhist image. The tell is glittering-generalities: the page frames American scholarly research as shared work uncovering a common human past.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- February 27, 1958
- Period
- Cold War
- Made by
- U.S. Information Agency (predecessor: State Department International Information and Educational Exchange Program), Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East series
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Eisenhower Administration
- Leader
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Audience
- Foreign public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Theme
- Science and technology
- Event
- Cold War
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives (NARA), RG 306, Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work; NARA RG 306)
U.S. Information Agency / Department of State, February 27, 1958. National Archives, Record Group 306 (NAID 6948811, 306-PPB-34s).
Text on the object
চিত্র কথা রাঙ্গামাটিতে প্রস্তর যুগের সন্ধান লাভ [Bengali photo captions not transcribed in full] Issue No. 30 Published weekly for U. S. I. S. Dacca by Jatiya Mudran. Editor's Note :-Please Post in Public Place, such as School Room, Bulletin Board Etc.
Chitra Katha (Pictorial Story) Finding of the Stone Age at Rangamati [Bengali photo captions on the page not transcribed in full: Dr. Robert H. Dyson of the University of Pennsylvania Museum spent three months in the Chittagong Hill Tracts studying Chakma, Mogh, Mro and Kyang peoples, and found a stone axe at Rangamati.] Issue No. 30 Published weekly for U. S. I. S. Dacca by Jatiya Mudran. Editor's Note:- Please Post in Public Place, such as School Room, Bulletin Board Etc.
Only the masthead, headline and printed imprint lines are transcribed; the small Bengali photo captions and body columns are not transcribed in full.
