142 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Benga!. {March, 1913, 
with large hemispherical silver buttons, richly embossed 
with figures of birds and flowers, enamelled in various 
colours. The sleeves are rather loose from the elbow, and 
usually folded back, showing a massive silver torque-like 
bracelet. A tight, thick cotton skirt, frequently ornament- 
ed round the lower third with squares of coloured silk and 
satin or embroidered work, with a pair of close-fitting leg- 
gings made of the same material, and handsomely embroi- 
dered shoes, with slightly turned-up toes, complete their 
external attire. On particular occasions, a richly embroid- 
ered clcth is worn over the skirt.’’ ! 
omen wear ear-rings, finger rings, neck hoops and 
bracelets which exhibit great variety of decoration and effect- 
iveness. A common form of ear-ring, a specimen of which 
I have in my collection, consists of a flat open ring of silver 
wire, massively enriched with smaller silver strands, and 
carrying two engraved silver bosses near the opening in the 
circumference. From it is suspended a bell-shaped structure, 
Their use of silver wire, filigree, and delicate decoration in 
enamel is unsurpassed by any of the surrounding tribes. 
hy The A-ch’angs are a quiet, inoffensive people. fervent Bud- 
dhists and exceedingly shy. In most of the Chinese-Shan States, 
the religion of Gautama is not followed with the zeal which 
manner. In Hohsa and Lahsa, however, the priests are more 
orthodox, and their example is followed by the common people, 
so that the religion has retained its pristine simplicity, and is © 
free from the laxity which blemishes Shan Buddhism, and 
which is doubtless due to th- superstitions largely borrowed 
from surrounding Animistic tribes. The Hohsa Valley is shut in 
a its se thing extremity by a low range of foot hills 
ich is crowne a group of p é , nl 
met with in Heiss Ca on ee 
‘chang houses are usually built of bricks on the ground, 
1 (1), p. 102. 
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