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Where it goesthighs

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

Where each claim comes from
FieldTierSourceNote
defaultcitedThe Burman: His Life and Notions — scanned by the Internet Archive
text_thinferencewritten in Thai by this project, not machine-translated

Sources

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

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