placeKengtung
Eastern Shan State — Tai Khuen country, between Chiang Mai and the Mekong
21.2917, 99.6000 · OpenStreetMap
What it is
The eastern Shan town that sits in the middle of the leg-tattoo zone, and in the middle of the Tai world the zone is drawn on.
The long version
Kengtung's people are Tai Khuen, whose script and manuscripts belong with Lanna's rather than with Burma's. Inference — the leg tattoo distribution follows this cultural geography, not the modern border: Burma, the Shan States, the Tai Khuen and Tai Lue towns, and Lanna, with central Siam outside it.
Connected to
- The leg-tattoo zone The zone.
- Shan leg tattooing The tradition.
Named here by
- The leg-tattoo zone A town in the centre of it.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | cited | Kengtung — Wikipedia (en) | |
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated |
Sources
- Kengtung — Wikipedia (en)
- Khuen people — 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