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Burma: Census of India 1901 Vol. I - Khamkoo

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34 REPORT ON THE CENSUS OF BURMA.<br />

the tattoo on his back. This action is supposed by him to rouse the magic power <strong>of</strong> the<br />

symbol."<br />

Sir George Scott, however, seems to detect no totemistic inwardness in this<br />

tattoo mark, for he sums up the matter under consideration in the following<br />

words :<br />

" Totemism also shows itself in the prescribed form <strong>of</strong> names for Shan and Kachin<br />

children and in the changing or concealing <strong>of</strong> personal names, but, so far as is yet known,<br />

there is no tribe which habitually takes its family name or has crests and badges taken<br />

from some natural object, plant or animal, though the limiting <strong>of</strong> marriages between the<br />

inhabitants <strong>of</strong> certain villages only practised both by tribes <strong>of</strong> Karens and Kachins is no<br />

doubt the outgrowth <strong>of</strong> this totem idea."

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