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  THE 
  HILL 
  TRIBES 
  OF 
  BURMA 
  

  

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  A 
  GROUP 
  OF 
  PADAUNGS 
  COME 
  TO 
  MARKET 
  ARRAYED 
  IN 
  ALL 
  THEIR 
  FINERY 
  

  

  Formerly 
  the 
  natives 
  feared 
  the 
  occidental 
  camera, 
  but 
  now 
  the 
  difficulty 
  is 
  to 
  keep 
  people 
  

   out 
  of 
  a 
  picture. 
  When 
  a 
  traveler 
  wants 
  fowls 
  or 
  vegetables, 
  it 
  is 
  suggested 
  that 
  a 
  photograph 
  

   would 
  be 
  the 
  most 
  satisfactory 
  mode 
  of 
  payment, 
  and 
  the 
  result 
  is 
  that 
  the 
  villagers 
  crowd 
  

   in 
  behind 
  to 
  furnish 
  a 
  background. 
  ( 
  For 
  a 
  description 
  of 
  the 
  costumes, 
  see 
  pages 
  315 
  and 
  317.) 
  

  

  most 
  in 
  this 
  way 
  and 
  their 
  aliases 
  suggest 
  

   nothing 
  so 
  much 
  as 
  Chevaliers 
  d' 
  Indus- 
  

   trie, 
  or 
  a 
  slang 
  dictionary. 
  

  

  It 
  is 
  very 
  much 
  as 
  if 
  an 
  inhabitant 
  of 
  

   Mars 
  were 
  to 
  land 
  in 
  the 
  U. 
  S. 
  A. 
  and 
  

   gravely 
  record 
  Yankees, 
  Hoosiers, 
  Blues, 
  

   Pukes, 
  Pennamites, 
  Creoles, 
  Crackers, 
  

   and 
  Beef-heads 
  as 
  tribal 
  names 
  distinct 
  

   from 
  Americans 
  proper. 
  

  

  STRIKING 
  PHYSICAL 
  DIFFERENCES 
  BE- 
  

   TWEEN 
  RED 
  AND 
  WHITE 
  KARENS 
  

  

  If 
  one 
  were 
  to 
  judge 
  by 
  build 
  and 
  

   facial 
  characteristics, 
  there 
  is 
  no 
  family 
  

   connection 
  between 
  the 
  White 
  and 
  the 
  

   Red 
  Karen. 
  The 
  White 
  Karen 
  is 
  heavy, 
  

   stolid, 
  and 
  much 
  more 
  stocky 
  in 
  build 
  

   even 
  than 
  the 
  average 
  Burman. 
  He 
  is 
  

   what 
  might 
  be 
  called 
  a 
  "worthy'' 
  person 
  

   in 
  the 
  most 
  offensive 
  sense 
  of 
  the 
  word. 
  

   He 
  is 
  bovine, 
  suspicious, 
  and 
  without 
  any 
  

   sense 
  of 
  humor. 
  Except 
  in 
  very 
  hot 
  

   weather, 
  he 
  does 
  not 
  wash 
  himself 
  as 
  

   often 
  as 
  he 
  ought, 
  and 
  he 
  would 
  certainly 
  

   defeat 
  prohibition 
  by 
  brewing 
  his 
  own 
  

   liquor. 
  

  

  The 
  Red 
  Karen 
  is 
  of 
  an 
  entirely 
  dif- 
  

   ferent 
  physical 
  type. 
  The 
  men 
  are 
  small 
  

   and 
  wizened, 
  but 
  very 
  wiry. 
  They 
  have 
  

   broad, 
  reddish 
  - 
  brown 
  faces 
  and 
  long 
  

   heads, 
  with 
  the 
  obliquity 
  of 
  eye 
  a 
  little 
  

   more 
  accentuated 
  than 
  the 
  White 
  Karen, 
  

   and 
  very 
  much 
  more 
  than 
  the 
  Burman. 
  

   In 
  former 
  days 
  it 
  was 
  the 
  invariable 
  cus- 
  

   tom 
  that 
  the 
  men 
  should 
  have 
  the 
  rising 
  

   sun 
  tattooed 
  in 
  bright 
  vermilion 
  on 
  the 
  

   small 
  of 
  the 
  back. 
  This 
  custom 
  has 
  fallen 
  

   into 
  disuse 
  ; 
  and 
  the 
  younger 
  men 
  are 
  

   without 
  it, 
  but 
  they 
  are 
  so 
  desperately 
  

   dirty, 
  old 
  and 
  young, 
  that 
  a 
  personal 
  

   detail 
  of 
  this 
  kind 
  is 
  hardly 
  noticeable 
  

   without 
  close 
  inspection. 
  

  

  LEGS 
  OF 
  WOMEN 
  OF 
  FASHION 
  ARE 
  HEAVILY 
  

   ARMORED 
  

  

  They 
  wear 
  short 
  trunks 
  reaching 
  to 
  

   just 
  below 
  the 
  knee. 
  These 
  are 
  red 
  when 
  

   new. 
  but 
  they 
  speedily 
  turn 
  to 
  an 
  earthy 
  

   color. 
  These 
  "shorts" 
  are 
  kept 
  in 
  posi- 
  

   tion 
  by 
  a 
  leathern 
  belt, 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  hot 
  

   weather 
  constitute 
  the 
  entire 
  dress, 
  ex- 
  

   cept 
  for 
  a 
  cloth 
  wound 
  around 
  the 
  head, 
  

  

  