Myanmar People and Races

Rawang

A tribe of the Rawang people who live around the conjunction of Burma, India, and China. There are only about 20-30,000 Rawang. They have long been primarily hunters and gatherers, but nowadays they also grow rice, serve as porters, and mine for gold and jade. The men mostly had a twig or thorn in the ear as ornament; the women sometimes a large silver ear-ring. The latter also were tattooed in green round the mouth.