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38 silver, and the designs are of a most restrained type. Unfortunately the black and white of the illustration give no idea of the beautiful colouring; but some idea of the designs can be obtained from the enlarged details, (Fig. 29e, f). After all the embroidery had been done, the material was stiffened by an application of rice paste to the back of the work.

The remaining bags in this group are all exactly similar in design; but whilst one is black, like GS 32, in the other two the stitchery which covers the bulk of the surface is emerald green in the one case, and crimson in the other.



Origin and   Habitat.

Interlaced with the Shans, on the direct route from Bhamo to Yünnan are a people who live in isolated huts, with every ten or twelve miles a group of about six