Coloured photograph of a Kachin woman. The Kachin are a confederation of ethnic groups who inhabit the Kachin Hills in northern Myanmar's Kachin State and neighbouring Yunnan Province, China and Arunachal Pradesh, Assam in Northeastern India. About one million Kachin peoples live in the region. From 'The living races of mankind: a popular illustrated account of the customs, habits, pursuits, feasts and ceremonies of the races of mankind throughout the world, Volume 1' by Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston, Henry Neville Hutchinson, Richard Lydekker and Dr A H Keane (1902). |