{
 "schema": 1,
 "id": "milne-shans",
 "type": "person",
 "names": {
  "name": "Leslie Milne",
  "said": "Shans at Home, 1910 — and she quotes the boys' friends"
 },
 "region": [
  "lanna",
  "mainland-southeast-asia"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "role": "recorder"
 },
 "when": {
  "from": 1860,
  "to": 1932,
  "circa": true,
  "label": "Shans at Home, London, 1910"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "The ethnographer who lived among the northern Shan and published the leg-tattoo account this site leans on.",
  "story": "Milne's book is of its period, but she stayed and she listened. The passage on tattooing carries the only direct speech this site has from inside a session: the friends sitting round the boy afterwards, telling him not to scratch, that he wriggles too much, that no girl will admire a spoiled pattern.\n\n*Inference —* that is three sentences of what people actually said, which is more than the entire administrative record of the same decade contains."
 },
 "text_th": {
  "what": "นักชาติพันธุ์วิทยาที่อยู่กับชาวไทใหญ่ทางเหนือ และเขียนเรื่องลายขาที่เว็บนี้อ้างอิง"
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "shan-tattooing",
   "as": "What she described.",
   "rel": "tradition"
  }
 ],
 "sources": [
  "s:milne-shans"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:milne-shans"
  },
  "fields": {
   "text_th": {
    "tier": "inference",
    "note": "written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated"
   }
  }
 },
 "confidence": "high",
 "tags": [
  "colonial-record",
  "women"
 ],
 "updated": "2026-09-19",
 "kin_in": [
  {
   "from": "shan-tattooing",
   "type": "tradition",
   "name": "Shan leg tattooing",
   "as": "Who wrote it down, and stayed long enough to quote the boys' friends."
  },
  {
   "from": "legs",
   "type": "story",
   "name": "The leg-tattoo zone",
   "as": "Whose sentence this turns on."
  }
 ]
}