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Fig. 32. — Karens, Northern Siam. These people, whose position among the 

 races of southern Asia has been a puzzle to ethnologists, live in isolated vil- 

 lages in mountain districts; in Siam they number 60,000. They are animists 

 and sacrifice fowls and other domestic animals to propitiate evil spirits. 



Fig. ,13. — Collecting fishes in a mountain stream in Northern Siam, 1932. 

 A scare cord is combined with a cast net. 



