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BEADED AND TATTOOED BEAUTIES OF THE KALABIT TRIBE
| All Kalabit women are tattooed when they reach the age of sixteen. Bold zigzag bands are traced on the forearm, not completely encircling the limb, and strikingly decorative geometrical designs are tattooed on the thigh, the shin, and sometimes on the knee-cap. They wear strings of large blue beads around the waist and wrist, and necklaces of smaller beads |
TUSKERS TAKING BAGGAGE UP TO THE HILLS
| In the hilly country of the Southern Shan States elephants are the only pack animals that can negotiate the steep paths up to the villages. For various reasons the tribesmen keep these paths as secret and difficult as possible, and so bad are some of them that a baggage elephant has taken fourteen hours to cover four and a half miles |