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The life of a silver mine in the 16th century, according to Heinrich Groff

The "houttmans", masters of the companymen, enter the mine [Print 14]

The head miners are the last to enter the mine. The picture symbolically shows the high position held in the hierarchy by the foremen by showing them to be much taller than the other miners.