Identifier: infarthestburmar00ward (find matches)
Title: In farthest Burma : the record of an arduous journey of exploration and research through the unknown frontier territory of Burma and Tibet
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Ward, Francis Kingdon, 1885-1958
Subjects: Botany
Publisher: London : Seeley, Service
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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A Duleng Village and Shan Girls, Hkamii Long. Long low grass-thatched huts, raised on piles -the typical hut of the Kachin tribes. OF LEECHES 217 Duleng villages, we halted at a third close to theNam Tisang, a tributary of which, it will be remem-bered, we had crossed two days previously. The Dulengs are a Kachin tribe, and are the greatiron-workers of this country, making the dahs andspears used by the Shans, Chingpaws and others.The iron comes from mines in the Kachin countryto the south, between the Mali and Nmai rivers. Their huts are similar to those of the Marus, builton piles and thatched with leaves of the fan palm;but the front porch, instead of being fenced round, isopen. The great central pillar in the porch of theKachin hut, whether Maru, Duleng or Chingpaw,is as it were the corner-stone of the building, a fowlor pig being killed when it is erected. On it arehung the skulls of sacrificed animals, mithan orbuffalo. The Dulengs, both men and women, tie the hairin a knot on t

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