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Dress of the Northern Kachins or Khakhus.

Mr. George, distinguishing between Northern and Southern Kachins, as Khakhus and Chingpaw, says, "generally speaking, the Khakhu men wear:

(i) a narrow turban wound round the head but not completely concealing the hair,

(ii) a coat with long sleeves, generally dyed indigo and without embroidery,

(iii) a striped oblong piece of cloth about the size of a bath towel passed round

the waist and secured in front by a twist."

Fig 34.-G. K. 39a. A Kachin Woman's skirt of terracotta coloured cloth, decorated with patterns in black (heavy lines in drawing). red, yellow, white, dull green and blue.

Two or three black cane rings are worn below the knee to set the leg off. The original dress is said to have been a very small tight coat, a small waistcloth and a very narrow turban wound only once or twice round the head and tied in a knot on the forehead.