Burma . TA TTOOING. 27. VILLAGE LAY SCHOOL. next to a parent, with a life-long devotion. Before or after the mon-astic novitiate, it is the customfor the Burman lads to havethemselves tattooed from thewaist to the knee (No. 152).Not to submit to this ordealis to incur the reproach ofcowardice. The tattooing is anintricate pattern of animals andtracery. Owing extent\ of surface involved, the pro-\^ cess is most painful. It\. occupies days or weeks, \^ according to the fortitude of the subject, who is drugged with opiumfor the \^ occasion. The instrument has a handle weighted at the butt
Burma . TA TTOOING. 27. VILLAGE LAY SCHOOL. next to a parent, with a life-long devotion. Before or after the mon-astic novitiate, it is the customfor the Burman lads to havethemselves tattooed from thewaist to the knee (No. 152).Not to submit to this ordealis to incur the reproach ofcowardice. The tattooing is anintricate pattern of animals andtracery. Owing extent\ of surface involved, the pro-\^ cess is most painful. It\. occupies days or weeks, \^ according to the fortitude of the subject, who is drugged with opiumfor the \^ occasion. The instrument has a handle weighted at the butt, and along point \. of bronze, split like a ruling-pen. It is worked with great pigment \^ is a kind of lamp-black of the consistence of ink. It showsbluish black ^v through the brown skin. When a Burman tucks up hisloin-cloth, as he ^^ always does for work or exercise (kaddung-chaik), he looksas if he had black \^ knee-breeches. As plain as the contrast is to the eye,ordinary photographic \^ plates fa
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