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SIYIN ONLINE MAGAZINE SINCE 2011 APRILENGLISH, SIZANG

The History of the Siyin Tribe by Carey and

Tuck (1896)

POSTED BY THAWNGNO APRIL 11, 2013 LEAVE A COMMENT

FILED UNDER TUCK AND CARREYThis article is compiled from the book THE CHIN HILLS by Bertram S. Carey andH.N Tuck,printed and published in 1896, in Rangoon. Names of the people, and places are differently spellednow adays.

I. ORIGIN AND DISTRIBUTION OF THE SIYINS

Original of the Siyins.The origin of the progenitors of the Siyin tribe is, according to the natives, shrouded in mystery.Tradition states that a gourd fell from the heavens and, bursting with the fall, emitted a man andwoman ; these became the Chin Adam and Eve, and their garden of Eden was Chin New , avillage already mentioned. This story is not peculiar to the Siyins, but is believed by all the tribes inthe Northern Chin Hills.

As the Sokte forefathers left the first village and moved south, thus earning the name of Sok Teso the Siyins moved cast and settled near some alkali springs, after which the sept was given the

general name of She = alkali and Yan = side. The Sheyante has been corrupted intoSiyin by the Burmans and we have accepted their pronunciation

for general use. The Siyins are called Taute or Taukte by the Lushais and Southern Chins,Tau meaning stout or sturdy and te is the plural affix implying people.

The first Chiefs of the Siyins.

Neyan of Chin Nwe is the father of the Siyin tribe; he lived 13 generations ago and be had threesons,. Ne Nu, Vamlok, and Daitong; these three together left the nursery of the Northern Chins,migrated some 12 miles to the east, and founded the two villages of Limkai and Twantak.

Vamlok is the progenitor of the three communities which we classify as the Limkai, Toklaing andBweman clans, and Ne Nu is the progenitor of the clan we designate as the Siyin clan of the Siyintribe, though it would be more correctly named if we called this family the Twantak clan.

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Vamlok had three sons, Hansook, Toklaing, and Limkai. Hansook founded Tavak village, Toklaingfounded Vumyang village, whilst Limkai remained in the original village of that name.

Ne Nu had one son named Lamtam, who lived in Twantak, the village founded by his father NeNu and his uncle Daitong. Lamtams youngest son Neyal moved from Twantak and founded Kosetvillage, which nine

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Nine miles from Tiddim.Meaning the people who went down or below.Te = people.Limkai was founded by Vamlok. The present village of Limkai lies south of theattan stream; Vamloks village was near Koset.Twantak was founded by Ne Nu and Daitong.The Twantaks and Toklaings, including the Bwemans, never moved off the banks of tho Luipi stream

before 1880, when they were driven into scattered settlements; and, although they claim to have lived at

different times in Vumyang, Mwiton, Twantak, Loto, Lope, Lopehwin, Koset, and Tavak, the sites oall these villages are still found and are within a few hundred yards of each other; of all these villages,with the exception of old Limkai, only Vumyang, Koset, and Mwiton figure prominently in the historyof the tribe.

Daitongs descendants arc still found; they are, however, of no importance in thetribe and it is not necessary to follow their antecedents.

Koset, i.e., Kwa = village, sat = east, therefore the eastern village of the tribe.

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