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KACHIN WOMKN 



Kachin women wear short skirts of strong, heavy cloth of the brightest colors. Their 

 jackets are of velvet or cloth, ornamented with cowrie shells, silver discs, and white bone 

 buttons. The turbans of married women are black, while the girls wear no kind of head- 

 dress. They wear a great many cane girdles, from lo to 20 or more, between the waist and 

 the knee. These girdles are generally black, but sometimes they are white or scarlet, em- 

 bellished with the inevitable cowrie shells. 



