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Thailand: A farmer with his pack ox in Chiang Saen, northern Siam, in 1902.

Thailand: A farmer with his pack ox in Chiang Saen, northern Siam, in 1902.

Pack oxen were the prime mode of transport at the time and facilitated trade around Laos, southern China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and Burma. Each of the baskets on the packsaddles could carry 20 kg of paddy.

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