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Title: Shans at home. With two chapters on Shan history and literature
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Milne, Leslie, Mrs., 1860-1952 Cochrane, Wilbur Willis
Subjects: Shan (Asian people)
Publisher: London : John Murray
Contributing Library: University of British Columbia Library
Digitizing Sponsor: University of British Columbia Library

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nd both boys and girls areearly taught to remove both shoes and turbans whenthey kneel before sacred images or when they presenttheir gifts to the monks. They kneel with handspalm to palm, in the well-known Little Samuelattitude, or with the hands, still palm to palm,touching the ground in front of their knees. When a child loses its first teeth it is often teasedby the big children, who call it Little Grandfather or Grandmother. If an upper tooth comes out itmust be thrown on the roof of the house, and the childis taught to say, Little mice, take away this oldtooth and bring me a new tooth. It is not an easymatter for a small arm to throw so far, but there isalways some kind big boy or man who is willing tohelp. The excitement is great when the tooth fallsshort of the roof, or, when landing successfully,it rolls down and falls to the ground. It mustat once be found and thrown up again. A lower A symbol of unknown origin, probably an emblem of the sun,found in many parts of the world.
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p. 40) GIRL FIVE YEARS OLD. GAMES 41 tooth must be hidden among the ashes of thehearth, while the same appeal to the little miceis made. Small boys play with girls until they are five orsix years old, then join the bigger boys, and driftaway from their girl playmates. Their games thenare different, but they sometimes meet at funerals,and then play with one another. Naturally the littleboys try to imitate the bigger ones, and follow andwatch their games. They all meet at meal-timesround the rice-pot and eat together, and there is nodifference in the home in the treatment of small boysand girls. Ill A CHILDS LIFE Until Shan children are five or six years old thereis little difference in the lives of boys and girls. Theyspend their days playing in the dust, or they paddlein ponds or streams while the mother washes—orrather beats—the clothes with a rounded stick on astone by the bank. Cloth is woven at home, andis strong enough to stand a great deal of beatingwithout being torn. The c

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