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Black and white photograph from the early 1950s showing a Kayan Lahwi woman aged 13, when she started to wear the coils.The Long Neck Kayan (also called Padaung in Burmese) are a sub-group of the Karen ethnic people from Burma. They are in majority and grow their own rice.They wear spiral coils around their neck and lower legs.They are also nicknamed 'giraffe women'. Pan Pet region, Kayah state, Myanmar. April 2019.