designCats and monkeys
| Where it goes | thighs |
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What it is
The two commonest figures on a Burmese thigh, named in the same breath as tigers and elephants.
The long version
The name of the animal is often written inside the figure as well, which Shway Yoe compares, drily, to a child labelling a drawing.
Connected to
- Htoe kwin The tradition it belongs to.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | cited | The Burman: His Life and Notions — scanned by the Internet Archive | |
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated |
Sources
- The Burman: His Life and Notions — scanned by the Internet Archive
- Tattooing in Myanmar — Wikipedia (en)
cited Cited — a named source, linked · harvested Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence · tradition Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged · inference Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above · field Field — someone stood there