Cecil Champain Lowis, The Tribes of Burma — The Tamans (1910)
“ There are said to be Tamans outside the Upper Chindwin District, but of the 829 persons who returned themselves as Tamans at the 1901 Census, all but fifty-five were enumerated in the Upper Chindwin. There is only one pure Taman village (Tamanthi in the Homalin Township) , but there are said to be Tamans in most of the villages in the extreme north of the district. An account of the Tamans' stories of people who could turn themselves into tigers and of nats who afflicted those who stole the property of Tamans, etc., was written by Mr. ”
