The giraffe women, a standing tradition of the Karen tribe
The Kayan women belong to the Karen tribe, located 40 km from Mae Hong Song (border with Burma).
The women of the tribe continue an ancient tradition, consists of keeping your neck as high as possible, so it used a golden ring around her neck to stretch it to the point of incredible dimensions.
Not all women of the tribe are the ones who get to be a woman giraffe, only those born on Wednesdays moon are considered the privileged of this honor, an honor for them all because they are admired by the rest of the tribe, from an early age start to put their neck rings made of brass wire.
The rings are incorporated as the years passed. Sometimes they die by neck was broken by the neck muscles to not support the weight of the head.
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