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Groups include: [George] Wills, Bishu Singh, and the boys of the boarding school and orphange; the women of the Home; [Blanche] Wills [nee Blanche Francis] and members of her "mothers' meeting"; "Bazar" and another Girls' School; teachers of the Mission High School; wedding group for a gurkha and "Harriet"; [Kate] Hindley [later Mary Evans] and students, Ramsay College; Salla March and family; Mr and Mrs Rawat and family; ?"Prudeh Gigau La" and Bhotiya boys; Bhotiya women (weaving and spinning wool), Munshiari [Munsiyari]; Gurkha women. Other people include: Mr Jai Datt Joshi; Mr ?Junas Singh; ?"Sherwa Li Ma, Jhulia Mi Ma, Lachlum Ri Ma". Other activities featured include: women weaving in the "Women's Home", Almora, and at ?Bhami's Lhal; Bazar school playing and eating sweets in the mission compound; "Miss Li and Meachen's coolies" [original caption, indentured/contract labourers] crossing avalanche area, near Milam; making thulmas; Bhotiya driving sheep. Other places or buildings featured include: mission church and ladies' bungalow, Almora; "Helping Hands" Hospital; snowy Himalayan peaks including Panchchuli; view from Baijnath; "the ?Hausling", house for workers, and sitting room, Munshiari; Maoboli, mission bungalow, and glacier, Milam; waterfall and valley en route to Milam; Bhotiya encampment; Bilju village; Gori Ganga river. Also includes: goats ready to start for Milam; yaks ready to start from Milam; Tibetan wall.
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