THE MIAO IN HAINAN,
MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF A STRANGE,
NORRADIC PEOPLE.
PRIMITIVE LIFE IN HILL DISTRICTS.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
It is a strange thing that there. are Mino-tze in Hainan, so far re- moved
from the other groups of the same type in Kwaichow and Kwang
Picturesque "Costume.
The dress of the men is always dark blue and can scarcely be dis tinguished from that of the ordi- si. Thus Mino say that they camenary Chinose Jabouring man oxespt to the island six generations ago, for the way.
which the coat laps which would be between three and ¦ and fastens down the front. four hundred years probably. Thoy say that they came from Kwangai at the time
the time of a bad fuming there, crossing a "his
water in their little boata.
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The costume of the women in most nieturosque. Coarse cotton cloth is bought from the Hainanese traders and dyed with indign. The dye is set in pig's blood, resulting in a
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 16, 1931.
HONG KONG STOCK DEATH OF MR. H. E. DR. KOCH RESIGNS FROM
MARKET.
YESTERDAY'S TRANSAC
TIONS.
The murket opened yesterday. morning with a wave of buying of the more speculative counters, sul stantial transactions having taken place in Ewos, Trams and Lands. Whampoa Dooks, after remaining stagnant for a considerable tímo, are now in demand at 829
SCRIVEN.
UNEXPECTED LOSS TO THE COMMUNITY.
OLD RESIDENT OF THE COLONY.
SANITARY BOARD.
LEAVING FOR HOME ON SATURDAY,
At the fortnightly meeting of the Sanitaly, Beard yesterday, It wits ment oued that Dr. W. V. M. Koch, who has been a member of Scriven, a resident of the Colony of years is to resign. He is dus The many friends of Mr. H. E. the Sanitary Board for a number for years, heard with deepest to leave the Colony for home on regret yesterday of his donth, which Uccurred in the early morning, at Saturday on the Terakuni Maru :
ilmness lasting about a week. the Penk Hospital, where he was.
The Vice-President, the Hon. removed the previous day after an Mr. H. T. Creasy, who made
LIGY
Banks were in request at $2,040 dens at $1,525, closed with buyers Canton Insuraness, after business
at this rate.
As the manager of the furnishing announcement, etated that Dr. terminated with buyers at 855;
Unions were dealt în at 8530, and
department of Mosers. Lane, Craw Koch had ucon mern- Hong Kong Fires wore wanted at fard, Ltd., where he had worked ber of the Board for many $1,480, but the rato did not proved himself s vory capable basi ernment both in Trinidad and
since November, 1004, Mr. Scriven roar, hnd served the cure shares. $0.20.
Underwriters were negotiated at a man, and his passing away is Hong Kong for 14 years and had
a great loss to the business com- been in private Whirves wore in dobrand nt $184munity and to a large circle of Inst 18 years, practice for tho Whampoa Docks, as already friends who regarded him with stated, were in. request at $20.0
mubh esteem A sad feature is Providents, which were done at that he passed away on the eve of 80, ended with buyers at 80.40 his end birthday.
tained at 83:23
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Ends were the medium of sales demand, but shares were seeking nt, 800, at which they closed in 800L/
The Miso in Hainan live in the characteristic odor never leaving mountaincus interior, principally the cloth and never to be mistaken. in the districts of Dengang and The cont comes to the kit cutThe new shares could have been ob Loh-hoe. Their villages are high p|much as the regular Chinese cost,
Hotels (old) were in demand at in the hills, and are most pictures- but open some five inches at cuch317. The new shares, which were que. As they are a nomadic people, side seam, and is bound with red put through at $10.60, were in re locations shift frequently, but the at the openings. The low red collar there were sellers at the first named quest at 816.40 but at the close
principles governing choice of site is ornamented with a bit of cross-quotation," remain a fairly level place near a stitch work. The skirt is merely a stodain, surrounded on at least thren double fold of cloth, reaching only aldes by steep hillsides. The houses to the knop, wrapped around the aro put"wherever the fancy of the hips, and tied securely. Before the milder dictates, with no regard to goods for the skirt is dyod, an in- streets. A framework of poles intricate pattern of trees and bamboo erected, fastened securely with rat is set on with melted beeswax. The withes. The roof poles are dye permeates the wax only very ..tan.
placed and covered with thatch, slightly, if at all, and after the sometimes of fan-palm leaves, some process is complete the skirt shows times of rattan leaves laid in broad. the pattern in, white or pale blue, flat shenvce and flistened with at around the bottom It is interest, tan stripping, sometimes of swamping to watch & skilful worker put grass fastened in sheaves. If such on the wax. The wax is kept melt t roof leaks, manding is easy-justed in a little bit of broken rookery stick a palm leaf under the thatch. over a few coals. The implementa The walls are sometimes of fine bam are bits of bamboo strips shaved to boo put close together and chinked the desired width and length and with a mud mixture, sometimes of thickness in the centre and the two finely woven bamboo screens. enda doubled back and fastened, to-
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Details of the Housos, The houses are usually of three rooms, much in the shape and size of an ordinary three-room Chinese house, with one door in the contro
front of the middle room, Thu
gether. The proper size is selectal, dipped into the molted wax and put on the goods-dip, press, dip, press, almost faster ther; the eye can follow, and the pattern emerges, always the same type of triangular enver are tillde to extend quite a framework outlining the spaces distanes over the side of the house within which branching trees are so that direct approach to the front set rod girdle about an inch wide is worn about the hips, woven door is difficult. The ordinary way of entrance is to step under the of beautiful silk thread if possible, caves at the end of the house and otherwise a cheap ready-made on walk along close to the wall under bought from a peddler: Dark blus to the door. puttes are tied with the same sorb verandan" Usually a lean-to is made at one of red ties, but very narrow. end of the house where the firewood for use in wet weather is stored (poles and branches in their origin al length, just pushed farther into the fire as they burn).
the
Social Activities.
In the early part of bis career in the Colony, Mr. Beriven was koon vachtaman. He was a pro Yacht Club, and was also for mony. minent member of the Corinthing years actively connected with the swimming activities of the Victoria good swimmer. He was a member Recreation Chib, being himself a of the Hong Kong Volunteer Do fence Corps, and did good work during the strikes.
Mr Wong Awang Tin, senior member of the Board, endorsed the Hon. Mr. Croazy's remarks and stated that as he had worked with Dr. Rock for the last eight years hotealized his fine character and expressed his regruts that he wan leaving. He wished Dr. Koch a pleasant and happy voyago and the board, and the Colony, extended the good wishes of both
Those present included Hon H. *
Cressy, Mr. Wong Kwong Tin, Chau, Dr. R. Aus Castro Basto Dr. Wy M. Koch Mr.IN. and the M.Q.H, Dr. G. W. Pope..
Humphreys (old) were in' demand
The business of the Board yes. at $22).
terday was of a purely routine. Eealties werd transacted at Mr. Seriven was one of the nature, nothing of public interest 817.30.
original members of the old St.boing diecused ingen Ewos, after being done at Tia,,George's Club. As a Freemason, the latter rate, but sellers wanted Steward of, the District Grand 15.35 and Tls. 151, had buyera at he had been Past District Grand Tla. 15.00.
Lodge of Hong Kong, and South China (English Constitution),
Trams changed hands at 822 60 closed in demand and $29.70, at which latter rate, they
Auch sympathy will be extended to the bereaved widow and daugh Star: Ferries were put through atter, to his brother-in-law, Mr. T. 208, and at the close they were in Stokes, of the Land Office, and
other relatives at Home, demand at 3953.
China Lights could have been placed at $30.
CHILD AS SHIELD.
ASTOUNDING STORY OF "GUNMEN'S ATTACK..
New York-An astounding story of how he used a small boy as a shield against gangsters bullets in police by a drug-trafficker named alleged to have been told to the Trobino
- The Funeral. Electrics..could have been obtain-
The funeral took place at the cd at 8821. A
demand at $443, and the new Rev. G. T. Waldegrave conducted Telephones (fully paid) were inley, in the afternoon, the Protestant Cometery, Happy Val-
shares were the medium of sales at solemn service at the gravesida
Trobine is stated to have confess $351.
in the presence of the bereaved fed that he was the real target of Stokes, and a large gathering that when the gangsters opened fire. widow and daughter, Mr. T. the baby-shooters week ago,
According to the police," he says
the shots passed over him. ho flung bigself to the ground, and
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Cements (combined), were in de Canton Ices were offered at 98.10. mund at 8903.
Watsons were wanted at $17.10.
Amusements (old) were in request at 127, and the "A" and "B" shares were also wanted at 823.00, respectively....
sympathisers.
Pretending to be wounded, be
Five children were mown down, but neither Trobino nor the boy he was carrying was hurt.
Hon. Mr. W. EL. Shenton, Mr Among those present were the E. M. Raymond and Mr. T. E. Pearce (Directors of Messrs. Lane crawled along the pavement and Crawford's), and feasts, A. seized a boy and held him up as Hong Kong Constructions cum Brown E. J. Ainslie H. Hampa shield, while he rushed to cover rights were in demand at 814.10 ton, E. Skinner, D. M. Goed from the murderous fusillade. and sales were reported of the all, B. 6. Hogers, R. Edwards, D rights a $2.60.
0.5. Enterprises were recorded Kharas, A. H. Ribeiro, O. sales at $11.
Ribeiro, E Quinlan 8. Macuider, H W. Randall, W. Ogley, M. Pianoff, Captain T. T. Cauren- son, Messrs. A. Morris, T. L. Mc- Pherson, W. Smith, J. D. Anderson, Mrs. A. Spittles, Misses ~MA J. Anderson, and Mias Thomson, W. W First, F. Razaret, Saunders, and Sprad- Tranklin, A. W. Anderson, G. W berry, Mr. P. T. and Miss Farrell, Anderson, AW. Stapleton, OAMrs. E. 0. Murphy, Mrs. Capoll Smith, D. C. Wilson, V. C. and family, Miss P. Webster, Labrum, V. Sorby, H. Mundy, A. Mrs. P. Angus and family, Sylvia J. Edgar, M. Billimoria, J. C. Browning, Col, T. A. Robertson, Granham, F. Mackintosh, T. Capt. CB. Riggs. Ellis, W. 8. Drake, and many
Afternoon Transactions.
In the afternoon, Hotels (old) and Constructions developed strength and were wanted at 817.30 and | 814.40, respectively. at $1,540.
Canton Insurances were wanted Providents, which were done at 80.56, were in demand at 30.40, but sellers were asking the former quo-
tation at the close,
Hotel (old) were dealt in at 817; but subsequently, buyers were in the market at $17.76, with sellers [secking" $17,40, The now shares business terminated with buyers at $10:40.
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others,
Floral Tributes.
The head-dreas is a kerchief of the same blue cloth, about nightcon inches square, worn with one point over the forehead and one at the
Messra, T. E. Pearce, F. A. back of the neck, the other two
Skinner, H, Hampton, B S. Ro-
Here too in the hollowed-out tros
corners knotted under the hair la
ger, A W. Brown, F. H. Crup trunk used for the mortar in which hold the kerchief in place. These
Wreaths were sent by Loving nell, D. K. Khatas, P. S. Cassidy, Wife and Betty, Mother and Fa W. S. Hilier, E. Quinlan, O. 1. the women pound the rice, and hora, kerchiefs are beautifully embroider-were done at 216.50 and 16.00, and ther, Jack and Jill, Brother-and Bensch, L: A Lammert H. Bur the cows may be tethered as there ed in colours. The patterns are all
Sister-in Law, Mr. and Mrs. Won, C. W. Balman, A. C. Wilkin J. Stoker.
son, J. C. Saunders, H. T. Buxton, is no separato shelter for them. symbolic but the meanings of some
Lands, which were dealt in at Included in the wealth of flora R. Pestonji, P0, Potts, F. H. Wash basins are sections of great of the figures have been lost with ss01 and 2001, had buyers at the tributes were tokens From the Hon. Mody, W. B. Tatey, A, J. Edgar, Mr. W. T. and Mrs. Southore, M. JB. Montargis, A. Nissim tree trunks hollowed out, imply the passing of the generations, clase at the former quotation.
Ebalties wero demand at the Hon. Mr. W. E. L. Shenton, T H. G. Brayfield, J. Barnet and ments are of the crudost, the rude Children holding bands, trees with
$17.30, with sellers asking $17,40, Mr. J. H Taggart, Hon. Mr. E. H. J. Fountain, G. E. Wetton, iron ones being bought from the the roots in the form of the swastika
Ewds, after being done at Tls 10, D. C. Wolfe and Are, Wolfe, Mr. D. Egan, A. H. Abbas, J.
and Mrs. D. M. Goodall, Mr. and A. C. Johnstone, R. A. Edwards traders. Washing is done in the as a symbol of fertility, dragons, were in demand at Tls. 18.90. stream. If the stream from which the turtles, birds, butterflies and flow Lights could have been ob- Mrs. A. W. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. E. Owen, Kwat Hing, Tak Kee, tained at 830, but buyers at the JT Bagram, Mr. and Mrs. J. Awai, Po On, Lecng Yuk-ker, Ab village supply of water is carried is ers can easily po recognited in sun-close offered $1,
Gould, Mr. and Mrs, T A. Mit Bang, Ming Pak Canton Ices werd on offer at chell, Mr. and Mrs. W. Saundar. Directors and Staff of Lane, a shallow one, the water buckets are ventionalized forms. The work in
done, in erosa-stitch and hence al! $7.00
sen, Mr. and Mrs. J. Gibson, Mr. Crawford, Limited; the Local huge hollow bamboo stalks, four or figures are formed on the square
Cements (combined) were in re- and Mrs. J. D. Thomson, Mr. and Staff, Ladiga Department, Furnish- five inches in diameter and two to, and the forty-five degree angle.
quest at 8901, with buyers
buyers asking Mrs. Stone, Mrs. Wing
"Corner 18201. three feet long. These have twisted ¡
Constructions cum rights were in rattan handles, are laid fiat in tho
done at 82.55 to $2.70. demand at $14.40. The Rights were
stream to fell, and Ave or six car ried at a load.
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Stockades. with Poisoned Stakes,
Agriculture is the principal means
of livelihood. The main crop is up-
Charters.
The turtle seems to be held in
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W. Hirst Mr. and Mrs. Staple House" Girls; Directors and Staff ton, Mr. Mrs, and Miss Bird, Mr. of Messrs Mackintosh and Co., Music and Mrs. H. N. Mather, Mr. and Limited; the Anderson Mrs. A. Smith Mr. and Mra Company, Limited; Carroll Bros.,
Autumn 1931
New Shipments of Autumn Goods have just been unpacked.
They include every possible wan from top to toe, from early morning. to late night
Ladies' Salon,
Lane Crawford, Ltd.
Without
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considerable estera. The wooden Lane, Orawfords (old) could have E. Lloyd-Jones, Mr. and Mrs Stowatons Stock Exchange; Co CALDBECK, MACGREGOR & Co., Ltd.
scals used to atamp importaat boen obtained at 88.20."
papara are in the form of turtle'
shells carved with wavy lines sur rounding the archaic and no longer
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YOUNG ENGINEER'S
DEATH...
Svorre Borg, Mr. and Mrs. Hong Kong Com Petherick, Mr. and Mrs. R. T.mittee and Members of the Hong Goodman, Mr. And Mrs. W. S. Kong 4. D. C.; Institution of Drake, Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Aina Engineers and Shipbuilders of land rice. The forest is cleared of recognizable characters in the and almost a mass movement to lie, Mr. and Mrs. W. Anderson, Hong Kong; the Local Printing the worst of the underbrush and centre. Ench village chiot guards wards Christianity took ilace Mr. and Mrs. E. Cock, Mr. and Press, Limited, Hong Kong Daily then burned off, beautiful hardwood jealously his copy of the Miso among them. Villages, put up Mrs. H. Overy, Mr. and Mrs. H. Press, Limited trées are ruthlessly destroyed, their Magna Charta," purported to thatch chapels, and hold services Nish, Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Mac- Lt. Col. Bird and Officers of the gaunt blackened trunks and larger have been issued by Bo Feng Oang every evening. At present they kintosh, Mr. and Mrs. V. M.K. Volunteer Defence Corps, branches bouring mute witness to some hundred years before the are suffering from communist, Hast, Mr. and Mrs, G. A. Harri Members of the Corps; and Mem- their ruin. The rice is planted Christian era In this the Mino propaganda, refugees from other man, Mr. and Mrs. D. Tollanbers and Bergeants Mess of the after the ground has barely been are given the privilege of rosiding parts of tha island having. Dr. and Mrs. G. D. R. Black, Corps; and the Worshipful **serstobed with rude hoes When in the mountains, their boundaries boon forced to leo to the hills Capt, and Mrs. Branch, Dr. and Master, Officers and Brethren of ripe, the tice is cut, tied in bundles, specified as follows: east to Fu-sang and taking advantage of their ozila Mra, W. V. M. Koch, Capt, and Zotland Lodge: 525 E.0. and put up in the rice racks at one. (indentified by some as Bagbalien to convert these tribes people to Mrs. T. T. Laurenson, Capt and end of the village, Thése racks nie, and by others, na part of Japan, their ways of thinking, dando Mrs. Ellis Walker, Mr. and Mra. narrow structures of poles, with according to Gilós dictionary); The Miso are a friendly, bos-Wilson Brown, Mr. and Mrs. J. thatched roofs, The ring bundles south to the Thren Rivers Iron pitable people after they becoms | Moodio, Mr. and Mrs. are fastened in firmly, heads to Mouth; west to the setting unacquainted with persons, and trips Roskruge, Mr. and Mrs. H. wards the outside, and the rice left north to the Cloud Mountains and among them are exceedingly inter- Dalgleish, Mr. and Mrs. 7. C. to cure in the open air. A closely the gate of heaven. They are to esting from the point of view of Finch, Mr. and Mrs. J. Wattle, set palisade of posts surrounds the be comrades of the birds and neigh-¦ studying manners and customs. The Mr. and Mrs H. D. Ifle, Mr. and rice račke the pointed tops cover-bours of the monkeys, are exempted language is not written, but is not Mrs M. Pianoff, Mr. and Mrs. B... "ed with thorny branches of a bram- from taxes are not to be coerced particularly difficult, and includes C. Randal, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. ble bush that is very irritating to into marriage with the Chinese nor a number of obviously Cantonese Buiter, Mr, und Mrs. Hyde Lay, the skin, if not actually poisonous. forced to worship in the temples and Mandarína forma: transferteil Mag. and Mrs. F. Stone, Mr. at the Italian Convent Hospital of Sharp pointed bamboo sticks are. They are forbidden to occupy land bodily from Chinese dialects. The and Mrs. J.-M., Jack, Mr. and 31, W. Macfarlane of the Chinese driven into the ground all around lower than three feet above water Mine do not intermarry with this Mra 1. T. Barratt, Mr. and Mrs. Maritime Castors, a the palisade inside, pointed on the lovôl, ip, land that can be used Chinese but often buy very young, L. Jack, Mr. and Mrs. Earn | The deceased was a young man top and dipped in the deadly arrow as paddy fields, and in Hainan thoy Hainanese children and raise them Abraham, Mr. and Mrs. G. B. of 25 and a native of Tyneside. He poisan, and so there is little danger Judhere strictly to that rule, leaving as members of their own people. On Labrum, Mr. and Mrs. T. Cleme, arrived in Hong Kong only a low of human thievery. Birds are kept, thỏ paddy folds and the lower river the other hand the few villages of Mr. and Mrs D, C, Wilson, M days ago aboard the Customs crui- nný by scarcecrows and by, eat, bottoms for the Cói aborigines and “horned Miso "?" (whom the Inte, and Mrs, Ho Kwong, Mr. and Mrs. | ser Likin and was taken nahoro sto thing wood devices hang where the the Chinese
Pikr of the C-L-Midlifed 4 Annella, Mr and Mrs M. E. hospital suffering from maistia – Ila. winds will keep them in action, and | The Mino in Hainan several yaara|48 Too) hayo almost lost their Iden Politi, Mr. and Mrs Elston and developed pooumenia and passed rate, are caught in snares and end ago hecams interested in roligion tity entirely, having morged with. Mrs Carrod.
away, as stated, on Monday. The up in the cooking potà.
(Contested on nézt Chlumn.) the Hainanese by marriage.
(Continued un atze Column.) 'funeral took place yesterday,
MR. W. MACFARLANE, OF O.M.O..
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