the Kayh; o r mountaineers; 'wiffi their whom - the Maywodn
had sent on the preceding 'day. I desired that the ffrincipal than
and woman should W r%fdugBt'
dressed in their best atUre/ Eonsisfcihg'bx ■& ill shaped sleeved coat m'a'de
of c o ^ e black M ttM cfctK; 'th at of the man3 wSif-mucli' shferter than the
woman’s ; both Were bordered with stripesbf White, red, ahd'yfellow; the
man had a.belf over'Ms right shoulder, from which was'*?Slperided a pouch'/
ornamented with strings; and s ia ^ l:®eHsr; ion! their h&adsdhtyWbfe ‘fillets
n e arl^iif the Birman maimer; ; ththh^mah^s'^&e^Ste&felf t i s IB ^ ^ ^ F
posed of'the CalyptraJof-'the Buprestis ignilaV’she'had'alsdl&orated Her
neck -mid anns with infeyyMn^s-b£%ita3s* ^pl%bwri8^finrWe^fh®?
remarkable part Was her face,"which was fattowed altfoV^rlfi'lirfcA mostly-
describing segments of circles.' ThfiF ceremony, which other
countries is performed on the ]pl?§s* of women not publicly exposed,
among’the Kayn is confined wholly to the visage of. their females, to
which, in the eye of an unahete<imed-byibMer,’'f t^ f ^ s f a 2 ^ f tv§xtraoi'di-
nary appearance; the aspect bf the'WOman,’tHofigh^lfil was'not otel, hdr*
in other respects ugly, from the effect of the operation was truly, hideous.
I asked the origin o f the - custom; this they1-.did not know, but said it
had existed from time immemorial, and that it was invariably performed
on every female, at a certain age. I immediately, employed my painter to
make a drawing -of?these; singular figures, in the attitude in which they
stood before me: a task which he performed in two hours, with great exactness,
and drew striking resemblances. There was some,difficulty in taking
a likeness of the man, who was alarmed and restless, from a supposition
that we were imposing magical spells upon him; but the woman stood
still with her hands crossed,- apparently in perfect good humour and