PLATE XI
Sale of Flags and Candles
There are no family names in Burma, and a child receives its name from the day of the week on which it is born. Each of these days has a group of letters assigned to it, as well as an animal, either actual or heraldic; and wax models of such animals, with prayer-flags for each group of letters, are sold at the stalls on the pagoda platform to be placed before the shrines.
