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LOLOS , the name given by the Chinese to a large tribe of aborigines who inhabit the greater part
home is in the mountainous country called Taliang shan, whicl} lies between the Yangtsze river on the east
south
south
bear a certain resemblance to Chinese. No literature, however, worthy of the name is known to exist, and few can read and write. Politically they are divided into tribes, each under the government of a hereditary chieftain. The community consists of three classes, the " blackbones" or nobles, the " whitebones " or plebeians, and the watze or slaves. The last are mostly Chinese captured in forays, or the descendants of such captives. Within Lolo-land proper, which covers some 11,000 sq.m., the Chinese government exercises no jurisdiction . The Lolos make frequent raids on their unarmed Chinese neighbours. They cultivate wheat, barley and millet, but little rice
See A. F. Legendre, " Les Lolos. Etude ethnologique et anthropologique," in T'oung Pao II., vol. x. (1909) ; E. C. Baber
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