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Title: In farthest Burma : the record of an arduous journey of exploration and research through the unknown frontier territory of Burma and Tibet
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Ward, Francis Kingdon, 1885-1958
Subjects: Botany
Publisher: London : Seeley, Service
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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into the Nmai valley,though the river itself, some 2000 feet below us, wasinvisible. The last part of the ascent was very steep, and theyoung men who reached the summit first threw downtheir loads ; but instead of resting they chivalrouslywent back and relieved the girls and old men, whohad lagged behind, of their burdens. I think theyoung Maru beaux must be very affectionate husbands,or at any rate lovers; courtship with them is a fineart. As already remarked, the Marus are not over-burdened with clothes, and during the heat of asummers day they are reduced to a minimum. The men wore only a short lone-gyi and stopped tobathe in nearly every stream we came to. The marriedwomen, who are distinguished by a sort of whiteturban, like a dirty pudding-cloth after a suet dumplinghas been boiled in it, perched on top of the head,never hesitated to take off their thin jackets, and thegirls sometimes did the same, though generally throwingit over the shoulders to conceal the breasts. The girls,
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Photo by) (A. W. Porter, Esq. Maru Women Pounding Maize. Note thestriped hand-woven skirts. These are dyed dark blue and red. AMONG THE MARUS 153 however, always tucked their lone-gyi up to their kneesat least, in fact the garment is not much longer at itsfull extent. They wear nothing on their heads, andcut the hair in a fringe round the forehead, after themanner of a Burmese sadouk, the rest of it being cutshort so as to form a mop. The men also go about bareheaded in the sunshine,but if going a days journey or more they often carrya flat, broad-brimmed hat, like a plate, with a smallconical peak in the centre; the framework is of coarselyplaited bamboo, with palm leaf woven into it, but it iscertainly not the equal in workmanship of the Yun-nanmuleteers finely woven bamboo hat. Cloaks made of overlapping strips of palm leaf, ar-ranged horizontally, or of fibrous cocoanut leaf sheaths,threaded on a string and tied over the shoulders, arealso worn in wet weather. Everyone goes about

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