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MESSRS. A, ROSE AND J. COGGIN BROWN ON 
with the divisions adopted by Forbes, Grierson and other eminent scholars, places the 
Fiso or Fi-su language in the Lolo Group of the Thibeto-Burman family. 1 2 
After a careful consideration of the whole question we are of opinion that this is 
the truest position to which the language can be assigned at present. 
The Lihsaw, Fiso, Fishaw, Fee-shaw, Yaoyen and Yawyins appear to be the same 
tribe, and we have adopted the name Fisu to supersede these varying and confusing 
terms as it is the name by which the people generally call themselves and is, therefore, 
better than the Chinese corruption of Fiso ; the independent Fisu also refer to them- 
selves as ‘ ‘ Anu ’ ’ or Cross-bowmen , but this is evidently a elan rather than a tribal 
name. The principal elan names are WO-PA, NO-PA, FAMA, TZE-PA, WA-PA, 
which the members probably give to the Salween the Chinese name of FU-TZU CHIANG, 
the river of the clan of Fu. 
Attempts have been made by earlier writers to connect the Fisu with the Yao 
(Fanten) tribes of southern Yunnan, or with the Chingpaw (Kachins) of the frontier 
hills (Burma Gazetteer, p. 482). In the case of the former, dress, features, customs 
and temperament are so entirely dissimilar, and the later linguistic evidence so un- 
favourable, that there seems full authority now for discarding any theory of relation- 
ship between the Fisu and the Yao. In the case of the Chingpaw it has been clearly 
proved that the dress and physical characteristics of the Fisu are distinct both from 
these people and from the Maru and Fashid At the same time there is a strong 
probability that the Chingpaw derive their origin from a Thibeto-Burman stock simi- 
lar to the Fisu, and fuller information may serve to trace the two tribes back to the 
same northern home. 
The difficulties which beset the anthropologist, in his investigations among these 
operations of the student, even when the subject is all unconscious of the value and 
inner meaning of the cult of the skull. In the frontier districts of western Yunnan, 
however, conditions are not so happy and a legion of obstacles must be overcome before 
any measure of success may be attained. We trust, therefore, that any students of 
anthropology to whose notice these figures may come will look indulgently upon our 
small and incomplete table, not weighing its deficiencies but seeking to strengthen 
such slight foundations as have now been laid. It is believed that this is the first 
attempt which has been made to approach the subject on an anthropometric basis, 
and it is equally believed that this is the only certain way of reaching a true solution 
of the intricate and difficult problem of the classification of the tribes. The data 
given below are the result of measurements taken on a series of 15 subjects, three of 
whom were Black Fisu from the Upper Salween, and the remaining twelve Hua Fisu 
FA-PA, NUR-PA, PIA-PA, CH’-IH-PA, IJ-PA, SHE-PA, and NU or FU-PA, of 
scattered and semi-savage tribes on their own ground, 
must be experienced if one would gain a full appreciation 
of their weight. In many parts of Asia long familiarity 
with the European has led the people to submit with some show of willingness to the 
1 Page 337 of “Yunnan.” 
2 See Pottiuger’s description. 
