personLeslie Milne
Shans at Home, 1910 — and she quotes the boys' friends
about 1,860 – 1,932 · Shans at Home, London, 1910
What it is
The ethnographer who lived among the northern Shan and published the leg-tattoo account this site leans on.
The long version
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.
Inference — that is three sentences of what people actually said, which is more than the entire administrative record of the same decade contains.
Connected to
- Shan leg tattooing What she described.
Named here by
- Shan leg tattooing Who wrote it down, and stayed long enough to quote the boys' friends.
- The leg-tattoo zone Whose sentence this turns on.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | cited | Shans at Home — scanned by the Internet Archive | |
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated |
Sources
- Shans at Home — scanned by the Internet Archive
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