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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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s grow more mysterious.A barking deer calls from time to time, and there aresudden cracking sounds, caused by the passing of somewild animal, or the breaking of a dead branch. Through the falling darkness come sounds of voices ;a caravan has halted for the night. The packs arelifted off the oxen and placed in a circle. Some of themen search for branches of dead wood to make theirfires, others occupy themselves by fastening the oxento short stakes, driven deeply into the ground. Ifthe wood-gatherers are long in returning, gongs aresounded, to enable them to find their way back tocamp. Every caravan carries one or more gongs, and, inpassing through jungle at dawn or dusk, or at nightwhen there is moonlight (no journeys are made throughthe forest on dark nights), there is a steady beatingof gongs, to keep at a distance wild beasts or evilspirits. When the fires are lighted the evening mealis prepared, and, after it has been eaten, men sing andtell each other stories far into the night. I
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THE COMING RAINS. ?. 160) CHAPTER XIII INDUSTRIES All Shan women weave cloth for their own garmentsand for those of their families. Many also sell inthe market the material that they have woven. Theyprepare the raw cotton by spreading the bolls on amat in the sun, in order to dry them thoroughly. The seeds are extracted by passing the cottonthrough a small gin made of two rollers, not unlikea mangle in shape. The seeds remain at one side ofthe rollers, the cotton is drawn between them to theother side. When all the seeds have been removed,an instrument, shaped like the bow of a violin, butwith a string of wire, is used as an opener, beingstruck through the mass of cotton to clean the fibreand make it light and fluffy. The clean cotton is made into little rolls, each sixto eight inches long, and three quarters of an inchthick, then, after being spun with a wheel, it is madeinto hanks by winding the thread on another wheel,which is about a foot and a half in diameter. The hanks are soak

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