Eureka Reporter | 1904-01-15 | Page 4 | Poor Place for Missionaries

poor place for missionaries in the northern shan states on the border of burma there Is a tribe called the wild was these people propitiate with human skulls the de mons whom they worship outside every tillage village in their country there are many posts all in one line decked with human skulls A niche Is cut in the back of each post with a ledge on which the skull can rest and grin through a hole in front of it every village has a dozen and some as many as a hundred of these head posts fresh skulls are in special request at harvest time and are purchased for large sums those of distinguished vis igors being particularly desired so as mr scott the british superintend ten dent of the states remarked some years ago the wa states are there tore fore no place tor for missionaries or globe trotters