Ethnic Study in Myanmar
Kayar

          Also known as the Karenni or Red Karen, the Kayah are settled in the mountainous isolation of the Kayah State. The name "Red Karen' refers to the favoured color of the Kayah traditional dress, and the fact that their apparel resembles that of some Kayin (Karen) tribes- a resemblance that caused the Kayah to be classified by colonizers and missionaries as "Karen". Today the Kayah make up a very small percentage of the overall population of Myanmar. A significant number of Kayar also live in Thailand’s Mae Hong Son Province. The followings are the minorities of Kayar.

Place
South Eastern side of Myanmar.

Appearance
Good hair, Fair Complexion, with high stout, round Shape Face

Literature
Haven’t their own literature

Worshipment
Buddhism and Christian

Regional Products
Seal, timber, marbel, iron

Art
Short and long Drum, symbol, gong, flute

Morality
Hospitability, braveness and hand-watching honest.

Mentality
Hospitality, Bravery, Hard Working and Honest

Symbol
Royal Drum

Outstanding things
Their outstanding things is the royal drum and they are very found and take pride in it.There must have one royal drum in each house and put in the holy place. The drum is adorn by 3 silver frogs at the surface of the drum and used at the royal ceremony. They never put the royal drum in low place , generally place in their granary.

Funny and Festivals
The chief festivals of Kayah is generally we call Ku Hto Bo festivals or " Pole Racing Festival" . It is held for the sign of peace , to get the good benefit from their carry out and their economic,to get good weather good healthy, and consecrating to their regional powerful spirit.
The first preparation of the festivals is saving their traditional beer, and set the male and female two wooden poles at the plain ground. Then consecrate the buffalo to their spirit, then make solemn vow in front of the two poles , and ended by dancing and traditional fun fair. They believe, by doing like that they can meet their old and new acquaintance in ceremony and getting good results from it.

Location
Situated at the south eastern sides of Myanmar.

Weather
In the plain region generally be the hot region and at high region , get the balance climate. Annual rain fall is always 40" to 50 ".

Scenery
The state is the hilly region , and most are approximately 4000 and 5000 feet in high, they are continuation of Shan Plateau. Eastern of the state is Sanlwin river valley, the western is the lowland of Belu Creek region.

Traditional Costume
Men have to wear white turban, white garment, and traditional jacket is over it, Short pant and Long Pant can be wore as the dress.
Ladies have to ware twisted short black blouse, and cover their body with red colour shawl. As the lower ware, black or red short Sarong is fold about at their kneel. The white belt id also their important things and adorn with brass or silver bracelets.

Their main products
There are so many natural caves and water fall. The greenish forest, and many of medicinal plants are very much in state. Many of tin mines, silver sources are the proud of Kayah state.

Law Pita electric power mill is distributing the electric power to the whole country and run by the force of Law Pita water fall.

The other sub group of Kayah are as follow … 

Bre
A small Kayah sub-group. The term is often used to refer to two closely related groups, the kayah and the Manoo-Manaw. Many Bres prefer to remain deep in the hills. Although Bre women wear far more jewellery, most men wear silver bracelets, necklaces, earring and leg rings. Bre jewellery is among the most beautiful of all Myanmar hills people adornments.

Gekho
Located between the Thaukyekar and Nancho streams. There are (26) villages. Occupied by the Gekho tribe and their dress and ways of living are similar to the Geba tribe. Gekho men wear short trousers with embroidery and the women wear ordinary petticoats, supplemented by red and white jacket. Some arrangement their legs and arms with heavy brass coils, and their necks with similar coils of lead. The men are stout and tall. Muscular and daring in adventure and have warlike appearance whereas the women are fair and good-looking.

Lahta
The lahta or Zayein live in rugged pine-forested country 30 meters west of Pekon and pinlaung along the border of northern Kayah state and Shan state. Lahtas wear white smocks or jackets over striped red shirts or short longgyi and red and white conical hats. Women wear traditional brass coils from the wrist to the elbow hampering arm movements. The population is still very sparse, and mainly engaged in taungya, shifting cultivation on the gentle slopes of the foothills. You can also observe the plantation of pepper. Houses are built on high stills with bamboo or wooden planks, thatched with grass. Their domestic animals like chicken, pigs and buffalos are kept in the basement corral. They are animist but some have been converted to Christianity and have abandoned their way of life.

Yinbaw
They lived in the plain areas of kantarawaddy and Baw la Khe in Kayah State. They call themselves the kang-ngan, which means "plain-dwellers". The Yinbaws were traditionally animists, but have converted to Christianity during 19th century. They celebrated a traditional pole-racing festival called lrutobo. The object of the festival is to censure good luck and prevent.