Shan people

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Shan woman

The Shan peoples (Shan: ; IPA: [tɑ́ɪ], IPA: [ʃán lùmjóʊ]; Chinese: 掸族; pinyin: Shànzú；傣族) are a Tai ethnic group of South East Asia. The Shan live mostly in Shan State, Myanmar. These people have close religious ties and similarities with Bangladesh's Chittagonian peoples.

Shan People Media

• Felice Beato (British, born Italy - Shan Beauty - Google Art Project.jpg

  1889 photograph of a Shan woman

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  Nam ngiao, a Shan dish

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  A Shan deer dance ceremony in the early 1900s

• Shan peacock dance.jpg

  The Shan kinnara and kinnari dance

• Shan Htamin.jpg

  Shan style pounded oily rice served on a banana leaf with garlicky roots

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  Traditional Poi Sang Long novice ordination festival celebrated by one of the Shan communities in exile in Thailand