This room begins with two complete illustrated public-domain collections. William C. Griggs presents nine Shan tales from the hill and water country in English, while the writer using the name Mimosa presents seven tales under the 1895 title Told on the Pagoda: Tales of Burmah. Both books are mediated English editions; their claims about belief, people, and tradition require historical reading, and the Shan collection should not be flattened into a single undifferentiated Burmese tradition.