[On back of photo:] "Magok saphire [sic] & ruby mines" [written in pencil]. [Emslie Horniman mentions ruby mines at Mogok in his list of specimens collected in Burma in 1927.] "Six stone implements found at Mogok, Ruby Mines, one and a half to two feet below surface, - Mogok given by friends." [Residual tape on back corners.]
Landscape shot. Mines with white spire of building in distance
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Hart Museum Visitor Books
Slide of a itinerant monk near Nikka Chu (bridge) between Thimpu and Thongsa
Photograph: ''Beehives'' - varnishing and baking interiors'
Bags of charcoal, Abidogun
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