Their carlier origins are not definitely known, but their history is thought to be similar with that of the main Karen divisions. They have received, somewhere in their ethnogeny. a strong admixture of Wa blood, which has given them the Wa type physical features, and a tribal dress which resembles the Wa more than the Karen. They might be considered as being closer to the Taungthu and Palaung than to the other Karen divisions. Linguistically thet are related, but well-separated from the Skaw and P'wo Karen. Some writers have placed the B'ghwe as a division of the Wa, and perhaps their conjectures arc not wrong. These people could just as well have been Was who became Karens. This influence is strongly apparent, whatever the ethnogeny of these people might have been