Mr. H.A. OTTEWILL tells me in a private note that the Kachins or Singphos
did not begin to reach Burma in their emigration from Tibet until last
century or possibly this century. They are not to be found east of the
Salwen River.
L., p. 91.
COUVADE.
There is a paper on the subject in the Zeitschrift fuer Ethnologie (1911,
pp. 546-63) by Hugo Kunicke, Das sogennante, "Mannerkindbett," with a
bibliography not mentioning Yule's Marco Polo, Vinson, etc. We may also
mention: De la "Covada" en Espana. Por el Prof. Dr. Telesforo de
Aranzadi, Barcelona (Anthropos, T.V., fasc. 4, Juli-August, 1910, pp.
775-8).
L., p. 92 n.
I quoted Prof. E.H. Parker (China Review, XIV., p. 359), who wrote
that the "Langszi are evidently the Szi lang, one of the six
Chao, but turned upside down." Prof. Pelliot (Bul. Ecole franc.
Ext. Orient, IV., July-Sept., 1904, p. 771) remarks: "Mr. Parker is
entirely wrong. The Chao of Shi-lang, which was annexed by Nan Chao
during the eighth century, was in the western part of Yun Nan, not in Kwei
chau; we have but little information on the subject." He adds: "The custom
of Couvade is confirmed for the Lao of Southern China by the following
text of the Yi wu chi of Fang Ts'ien-li, dating at least from the
time of the T'ang dynasty:
