Burma image, WA1294
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Burma image, WA1294. Hkahkus cooking on Myitkyina beach, raft in background.
"Since travel has become comparatively safe in British territory the Hkahkus have given up cooking their own salt, and a representative from each household makes an annual trip to Putao or Myitkyina to buy the year's supply. For protection they travel in parties. Those visiting Myitkyina make rafts on the banks of the Mali and float them down the river. The bamboos of which the raft is made, together with some of the merchandise such as cane, sessamum and opium are sold to dealers in Myitkyina. With the proceeds, salt and odds and ends such as needles, dah blades, cooking pots etc., are purchased and carried back to their homes which are often three weeks' journey from the bazaar. The rafts, which are very ornate, sometimes carry as many as thirty men. A dumsa [spirit priest] is invariably in the party. On the journey they make petty offerings to the nats at every stop and when in danger throw water in the air for their household nats which are protecting them." [dissertation, 1934:145-146]
*****Green wrote a more personal account of his encounter with Kachin raft travellers in his journal of his expedition to the Triangle in 1925:
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"Since travel has become comparatively safe in British territory the Hkahkus have given up cooking their own salt, and a representative from each household makes an annual trip to Putao or Myitkyina to buy the year's supply. For protection they travel in parties. Those visiting Myitkyina make rafts on the banks of the Mali and float them down the river. The bamboos of which the raft is made, together with some of the merchandise such as cane, sessamum and opium are sold to dealers in Myitkyina. With the proceeds, salt and odds and ends such as needles, dah blades, cooking pots etc., are purchased and carried back to their homes which are often three weeks' journey from the bazaar. The rafts, which are very ornate, sometimes carry as many as thirty men. A dumsa [spirit priest] is invariably in the party. On the journey they make petty offerings to the nats at every stop and when in danger throw water in the air for their household nats which are protecting them." [dissertation, 1934:145-146]
*****Green wrote a more personal account of his encounter with Kachin raft travellers in his journal of his expedition to the Triangle in 1925:
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