The Kayan Lahwi people, also known as Padaung, are a minority ethnic group with populations in Burma and Thailand. Padaung women are famous for their distinctive custom of wearing brass coils around their necks. As the women grow, the coils are lengthened, compressing the rib cage and displacing the collarbone, creating the illusion of an extremely long neck. According to Mashable, in the 1930s, circuses and sideshows were tremendously popular in the United Kingdom. Padaung women, advertised as “giraffe women,” were star attractions, drawing crowds of curious gawkers. Below are some of vintage pictures of Paduang women when they visited London in 1935. A policeman directs three Padaung women along Elgin Avenue in London. (Image: General Photographic Agency/Getty Images) Padaung women with a Grenadier guard at Horse Guard's Parade, London. (Image: General Photographic Agency/Getty Images) Three Padaung women play cards. (Image: Keystone/Getty Images) Doctors examine Padaung woman Mu Proa working for the Bertram Mills Circus in London. (Image: Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Padaung women wave at Londoners upon their arrival at Victoria Station. (Image: Imagno/Austrian Archives/Getty Images) Paduang women arrive by train. (Image: Harlingue/Roger Viollet/Getty Images) Mu Proa with her newborn child. (Image: ullstein bild via Getty Images) Mu sits up in bed with her baby. (Image: Harlingue/Roger Viollet/Getty Images) (Image: Harlingue/Roger Viollet/Getty Images) Mu Proa with her child. (Image: Boyer/Roger Viollet/Getty Images) Mo talks to a police officer with her baby. (Image: Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone/Getty Images) A Padaung woman celebrates her 21st birthday with a cake in Folkestone, England. (Image: A. J. O'Brien/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

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The long neck women are Burmese refugees. Five hundred Kayans live in Thailand. Around fourty thousands tourists comme to visit them each year. They have to pay ten euros to enter in the 3 long necks villages. A long neck woman earn 1500 b a month. They sell souvenirs and postcards. They wear the coils. Coils are made by men. They start to put the coils when they are children. They add a coil each year that passes. The neck is not stretched, the shoulders are pushed down, making the neck look longer. It takes almost two hours to remove a coil from the neck. A fake legend says that if women fall they die by breaking their neck. Long neck women keep their coils during the sleep. To prevent their skin from sores, they cover it with leaves.Young generations wear a necklace to feel prettier but also to attract tourists. One theory claims the rings were designed to deter attacks from tigers. Tigers grab victims by the neck. Another says they were meant to lessen the women’s beauty to ward off men from rival tribes. © Eric Lafforgue www.ericlafforgue.com

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The Royal cafe. Rangoon , 1961.

Burma Now exhibition in Dublin 1983. Scan from Ilford HP5 film neg.

Rangoon , 1961.

ภาพยนตร์เรื่อง Twilight Over Burma

ran across this today.. I see them all the time tho.. what do you guys think about keeping them all in one place as we find them.. they are so cool......

Filled with remarkable temples and pagodas, Myanmar's Bagan is rich in art but rarely visited. Exploring a 13th-century city under a modern repressive regime.

Burma (Myanmar) I use the names Rangoon and Burma in this series because the country did not change the names to Yangon and Myanmar respectively until 1989, seven years after I took these photos.

Burma Trip, Day 5: This shows the central pagoda of the teak Bagaya Monastery near Mandalay.

Aye Aye Thant (R) and Tin Maung Thant (L), children of UN Ambassador from Burma.

The Kayan Lahwi people, also known as Padaung, are a minority ethnic group with populations in Burma and Thailand. Padaung women are famous for their distinctive custom of wearing brass coils around their necks. As the women grow, the coils are lengthened, compressing the rib cage and displacing the collarbone, creating the illusion of an extremely long neck. According to Mashable, in the 1930s, circuses and sideshows were tremendously popular in the United Kingdom. Padaung women, advertised as “giraffe women,” were star attractions, drawing crowds of curious gawkers. Below are some of vintage pictures of Paduang women when they visited London in 1935. A policeman directs three Padaung women along Elgin Avenue in London. (Image: General Photographic Agency/Getty Images) Padaung women with a Grenadier guard at Horse Guard's Parade, London. (Image: General Photographic Agency/Getty Images) Three Padaung women play cards. (Image: Keystone/Getty Images) Doctors examine Padaung woman Mu Proa working for the Bertram Mills Circus in London. (Image: Hulton Archive/Getty Images) Padaung women wave at Londoners upon their arrival at Victoria Station. (Image: Imagno/Austrian Archives/Getty Images) Paduang women arrive by train. (Image: Harlingue/Roger Viollet/Getty Images) Mu Proa with her newborn child. (Image: ullstein bild via Getty Images) Mu sits up in bed with her baby. (Image: Harlingue/Roger Viollet/Getty Images) (Image: Harlingue/Roger Viollet/Getty Images) Mu Proa with her child. (Image: Boyer/Roger Viollet/Getty Images) Mo talks to a police officer with her baby. (Image: Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone/Getty Images) A Padaung woman celebrates her 21st birthday with a cake in Folkestone, England. (Image: A. J. O'Brien/Fox Photos/Getty Images)