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A narrow rapid in the Nmai Hka below Nangu. (December). The pointed peak lies on the right bank just below the junction of the Chipwi Hka. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking downstream towards the rapids, with mountains beyond.
Palm trees in Gawlam village. It is from this palm that the Chinese make the fibre coverings for their mule loads to keep them dry. (Upper Ngawchang Valley). Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography View of village houses and palm trees.
A Yawyin. The coat is of light material, the yoke and cuffs of dark blue. He is wearing putties which is not usual: gaiters are almost universally worn by both sexes. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Full-length standing portrait of a Yawyin man.
Back view of above [Yawyin woman, daughter and baby]. The ground work of the coat and skirt is dark blue with yellow and red patches. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Rear view of the three figures seen in print 59.
Site of one of the Chinese stockades of Feb. 1900, 4 miles S. of Hpare. These stockades were then on a bare clearing. The undergrowth has since sprung up. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Group of British officers, Gurkha N.C.O.s and porters posed in remains of Chinese stockade.
The loads on the pony. The muzzle is put on to prevent animals stopping on the road to graze. The leading or head rope is entirely dispensed with. The breastpiece or strap is too loose. Photographer: Unknown
A bit of the camping ground, Upper Piepat, height 7,300 ft. It was on this ridge that a small post was built and a transmitting station established to connect up the Ngawchang Valley with Nangu and Loignu Bum. Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
General view of camp area, with a group of officers conversing in the middleground.