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Burma image, WA1217. Cis Nmai Nung woman with load.
Colonel Green was very impressed with the quality of Nung basket-work and other cane and bamboo crafts and wrote the following in his dissertation for Cambridge University in 1934:
*****"The Nungs are exceptionally good at basket work and all work in cane. This work is all done by the men. The women's baskets are particularly beautiful and are woven in very soft split cane and decorated with open work and by patterns in red and black cane. This superiority in cane work at which the Nungs excel, is common to the Nmai Valley tribes. The dah [sword] handles, the women's shingnois [large, fine-weave baskets] and the men's back baskets are all much better made than those of the Hkahkus. Pottery is not understood and their stills and liquor containers are made of split cane and bamboo, and are covered in lac or resin on the inside. Their large grain containers are made of plaited bamboo and are lined with a mixture of cow dung and clay. Neck rings and bracelets are also made of cane. Their bamboo containers are examples of perfect craftsmanship. The lids are made to fit perfectly and are sometimes tastefully decorated with very fine inlaid bands of plaited red and black cane. Specimens of their bamboo and basket work can now be seen in the Pitt-Rivers Museum." [dissertation, 1934:210-11]
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Colonel Green was very impressed with the quality of Nung basket-work and other cane and bamboo crafts and wrote the following in his dissertation for Cambridge University in 1934:
*****"The Nungs are exceptionally good at basket work and all work in cane. This work is all done by the men. The women's baskets are particularly beautiful and are woven in very soft split cane and decorated with open work and by patterns in red and black cane. This superiority in cane work at which the Nungs excel, is common to the Nmai Valley tribes. The dah [sword] handles, the women's shingnois [large, fine-weave baskets] and the men's back baskets are all much better made than those of the Hkahkus. Pottery is not understood and their stills and liquor containers are made of split cane and bamboo, and are covered in lac or resin on the inside. Their large grain containers are made of plaited bamboo and are lined with a mixture of cow dung and clay. Neck rings and bracelets are also made of cane. Their bamboo containers are examples of perfect craftsmanship. The lids are made to fit perfectly and are sometimes tastefully decorated with very fine inlaid bands of plaited red and black cane. Specimens of their bamboo and basket work can now be seen in the Pitt-Rivers Museum." [dissertation, 1934:210-11]
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