Lisu ( Yawyin ) Tribes of the Emmet-China Frontier. 
By Archibald Rose, F.R.G.S., and J. Coggin Brown, B.Sc., F.G.S. 
Index. 
Page 
X. Historical introduction 249 
2. Life in a Lisu village 251 
3. Stories of the chase 251 
4. Evening in camp 252 
5. Legend of the origin of Lisu race 252 
6. Lisu dance 254 
7. Lisu songs 254 
8. “Black” or Independent Lisu 255 
9. Previous workers 256 
10. Early home and present distribution of tribe (with map) .... 258 
11. Physical characteristics 258 
12. Dress of men 258 
13. Dress of women 259 
14. Villages and houses 260 
15. Birth and naming customs 260 
16. Death and burial customs 261 
17. Marriage customs 262 
18. Government 264 
19. Language 265 
20. Agriculture and crops t ' 263 
21. Religion 265 
22. Position of the Lisu in the present classification of the tribes of 
Yunnan 267 
23. Earlier classifications 267 
24. Anthropometric data from the living subject 268 
25. Conclusion - . 269 
Annex 1 — Three vocabularies 270 
Annex 2 — Anthropometric measurements 276 
Annex 3 — List of plates 277 
Annex 4 — Photographs Pis. I-VIII 
Near the south-east corner of Thibet lies a tract where three great rivers, the 
Historical introduction Salween, the Mekong and the Yangste, run side by side 
within a belt of 50 miles, 1 fed by few tributaries and divided 
by the great mountain masses which here, and for a considerable distance to the south, 
1 “ The Rivers of the Himalayas and Thibet,’’ Part III of “ Sketch of the Geography and Geology of the Himalaya 
Mountains and Thibet,’’ by Col. S. G. Burrard and Mr, H. H. Hayden (1907), p. 127. 
