35mm slide: The whole village coming out to meet the group and escort them to a village. Peter thinks this is SCHANGZHAI village, Changzhai, which seems to be where they had lunch. His log book also has ‘Dahzhi’, crossed out, and then ‘Dongkou’, perhaps the name of the village they had stayed in the previous night.
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Woman demonstrating how to the head cloth. Ake village. April 6th.
Handing holding large butterfly
Slide showing the process of silk string manufacture by Rihzhon Khojakhanov and his family
Jos, mud houses and mangoes
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