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Ethnic Mosaic: The Peoples of Bhutan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | The Lhopus are shifting cultivators (maize, millet and sorghum), raise cattle but they also hunt, fish and gather forest products. |
 | | It is a rectangular cloth knotted behind the neck, folded into two pleats in the back, bloused over a belt and worn short for the men; knotted at the shoulder, belted and worn long for the women. |
 | | To the west of the Lhopus, in the region of Denchukha along the northern A mo chu river, are the Lepchas amounting to about 1000 people and speaking a Tibeto-Burman language of the Naga group. |
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