Pumtek and other Beads of Burma

Excerpt from The Chin Hills: a history of our people, Volume 1 By Bertram Sausmarez Carey, Henry Newman Tuck ~ Published 1896

"The cornelian is the most prized ornament of the Soktes, Siyins and Tashons. Although the Hakas collect and preserve these necklaces, they do not wear them so generally as is the fashion of the north, and they do not value them like the sacred Pumtek, which is at once the most prized and the most costly possession of the southerner, and is always readily exchangeable for any valuable such as cattle, guns and slaves"