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t3’pe. Their houses are like those of the Shans but are often built on bamboo 
poles in the water. 
As in other parts of Burma a bazaar is held in each village once every five days. 
Xo two villages within easy walking distance have the same market day, but m 
any one small district there is a market that any one can attend somewhere 
practically every day of the week. The biggest market in the State of Yawnghwe 
is held at a large village called Nan -pan, which is situated just south of the lake 
on the river that runs down to Karen-ni. Two thousand boats are said to come 
to this market on a full market as well as numerous pack-oxen from the eastern 
part of the State, while the hill tribes for many miles round come dovm on foot. 
The people of Nan-pan are famous for their silks, for their iron-work, their 
gongs and their lacquer tables. Their blacksmiths are said to be the most skilled 
in the country and provide a great deal of the gilded iron foliage with which the 
thrones of the images of Buddha in the temples of Yawnghwe are decorated. A 
few men m this village are still able to make the fine boxes in niello work in which 
Intha elegants carry the lime for their betel-chewing. Very beautiful little 
tables, or rather low stands for holding food-dishes, are here made of bamboo 
basket-work covered with red and black lacquer on a wooden stand. They are 
used particularly by the monks and numbers of them are to be seen in any of 
the numerous monasteries that stud the shores of the lake. 
But, in spite of all these industries and arts, the Intha are essentially simple 
fisher-folk, and it is to the lake and its fauna they owe the fact that 
they are in a position to indulge in such luxuries as silk trousers and 
lacquer tables. Even their fishing-nets are sometimes made of silk through the 
crude material is brought overland from China many hundred miles awa\% 
