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Rh ;Dress of the Northern Kachins or Khakhus. Mr. George, distinguishing between Northern and Southern   Kachins, as Khakhus and Chingpaw, says, "generally speaking, the Khakhu men wear:

(i) a narrow turban wound round the head but not completely concealing the hair,

(ii) a coat with long sleeves, generally dyed indigo and without embroidery,

(iii) a striped oblong piece of cloth about the size of a bath towel passed round the waist and secured in front by a twist."

Two or three black cane rings are worn below the knee to set the leg off. The original dress is said to have been a very small tight coat, a small waistcloth and a very narrow turban wound only once or twice round the head and tied in a knot on the forehead.