The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c23.s3.29

v4.c23.s3.29

As was invariably the case, the Burmese no sooner occupied an area than they required levies, and the Burmese Shans were at once employed against the Siamese Shans. The chiefs presented daughters to the rival harem, sent their sons to be brought up in the palace, and paid periodic tribute; Momeik, the most valuable of all, paid rubies; Chiengmai paid elephants, horses, lacquer and silks. Everywhere he deported numbers of the people in order to populate his homeland. From Chiengmai he took artisans, especially her famous lacquer workers;¹ it is probably these who introduced into Burma the finer sort of lacquer ware called yun, the name of the Yun or Lao Shan tribes round Chiengmai.²