(Black & White) Shot from a train window along carriages. People hanging out of windows (most waving small pieces of white cloth). Shots of a steep drop to the valley below. The train winds along a hillside track, and passes a trackside signal. Sentries stands guard outside a tent. Expedition supplies are sorted by British? officers and Indians? A group of officers? pose for the camera. Scenes of mules playing up, resisting load. Loading mules for expedition. An elevated view of the mule train leaving along a hillside track, followed by soldiers. Close-up of the soldiers and mules passing by, close-up on the soldiers feet. Shots of the mule train passing military vehicles parked on the roadside. Various views of the mule train. A Burmese man washes his shoes, two others wash clothes in a stream. Scenes of men washing in the stream and mules grazing in a field. Shots of the men eating and drinking. A shot of tents in the camp. A Burmese soldier? feeds a horse. Local people sit with baskets of goods (rice and vegetables etc for exchange?). They wait in a line and medicine is administered by Indian soldiers? Mules eating hay. A view of the village and adhacent tents. An elevated view of the column through pass. Shots of mules walking through water and mud. Close-ups of a mule's tail and the strap securing its load.

Shots on route. Crossing river by raft. Buying in market. Camp scenes. Bathing in river by waterfall. Wading River. COLOUR: Locals (in colourful costumes) with white soldiers. "NAHTAWN" caption where headmen from surrounding villages, visited us. B/W White expedition loaders with tribesmen on route again. Strange carving in wood skulls. Mules crossing river. Panning for gold.

Wa State, Burma.

Notes

Allocated Title taken from Hodgkinson's original can markings.

Date: stock dates on Kodachrome is 1944

Technical: copy status not marked