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Karen long neck Nam Peang Din village, on river Pai Thailand |
Eric Lafforgue posted a photo:
Karen long neck Nam Peang Din village, on river Pai Thailand
The long neck women are Burmese refugees. Five hundred Kayans live in Thailand. Around fourty thousands tourists comme to visit them each year. The young ones on the picture explained me that they still wear the coil, as they feel pretty with it, but they do not want to put the bi gones, like their mothers used to do !
They start to put the coils when they are children. They add a coil each year that passes. It takes almost two hours to remove a coil from the neck. The neck is not stretched, the shoulders are pushed down, making the neck look
longer. 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.
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.
They sell souvenirs and postcards. A long neck woman earn 1500 b a month.
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