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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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il, but watchers in Shanvillages in Yun-nan fire guns at intervals through thenight, warning the hill men that there are villagepeople awake and watching. Girls are fond of playing with cowrie shells or theseeds of fruits. A row of small holes is made in theground, then the cowries or seeds are thrown or;flicked into them from a distance. Girls have nodolls, and there is no attempt to make images ofcloth or wood for playthings, to represent babies,though children are fond of nursing puppies orkittens, pretending that they are children. I rememberjshowing some grown-up Shans a European picture!of children and dolls, which greatly surprised andpuzzled them; they believed that the dolls repre-sented a dwarf race of living people, whose extremesmallness greatly astonished them. I found it difficullto make them understand that they were only toysfor children. With the exception of wooden topsand whistles made of clay in the shape of birds ancbeasts, which can be bought in the markets, Shar
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PRACTICAL JOKES 65 children make their own toys of seeds or shells,sticks and stones, and with these they are perfectlyhappy. Girls are fond of nursing their smallersisters and brothers, making good and careful littlenurses. They do not spend as much time in gamesas do the boys, because they help their mothers inso many ways at home. They love their daily bathin the stream, wading, splashing, and throwing thewater at each other in fun; and, although the childrenoften try to upset one another in fun in deep pools,neither boys nor girls are reallyrough or unkind in their play.They bathe naked until nine orten years of age; then wearpetticoats, tied tightly under thearms. Shans do not excel inswimming, and, as they knowthe danger of the strong cur-rents and whirlpools in greatrivers, rarely attempt to crossfrom shore to shore, contentingthemselves by swimming closeto the banks downstream. Children,and grown-up peopletoo, are fond of playing practicaljokes. If they find a dead snake they

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