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 * THA TON, Thailand, has 32-inch long necked women. People call them, "giraffe women". They put around their necks brass foil, and by this many more tourist have come just to see them! Before puberty, it is a custom that girls wear coils that are augmented, until it's 11 pounds. These coils make the chin foward, while pressing down on ribs, collar bones, and making the neck longer. Some history of this custom says that this holds protection over tigers, and it shows wealth and riches. One myth was told about a beautiful dragon who had a long neck. With this beauty, it IS a place for tourism. Ma Nang, who is 43 years old, has 24 coils around her neck. She earns 3,000 baht (which is about $70), for a monthly income. She sells handicrafts, gets etrance fees, and photograph fees as a job. Basically, this shows how they get their necks to be so long and how it is beatiful to them. It is a custom to them, and for us (tourisms) it is something some of us find so interesting and would want to check out. ***EMILY***
 * The Karen are a remote people. They live in social units that are protective of the tribe and protective of the whole Karen people. Their customs and traditions stem from an ancient medium the details of which the Karen themselves claim to have forgotten. Among the many Karen traditions is that of **beautifying the women** of the tribe in special ways. There are as many distinctive features of beauty among the Karen as there are divisions within the larger tribe. The Karen are not one homogeneous group but rather a loose confederation of heterogeneous and closely related tribes. Each of these tribes has their own variation on beauty. ***SARA***
 * [[image:http://farm1.static.flickr.com/126/377758707_6963534233.jpg?v=0 width="262" height="343" caption="Padaung Tribe long neck - Padaung törzs hosszúnyakú szépsége by elisabatiz."]]***EMILY*** here is a picture
 * [[image:http://www.asiaone.com/a1media/travel/08Aug08/nst_myanmar3.jpg width="200" height="300"]]***SARA*** young girl!

Coils applied to girls ages 5-6. They get a new one every two years until they are married. Silver and bronze coils also cover their legs and arms. The rings symbol: beauty, wealth, and status. But they were said to protect from tiger attacks. ***EMILY*** Burmese men and women both wear a sarong type piece of clothing which is also called in their culture a longyi but they tie it differently. The difference is that men tie the longyi in the front while the women tie it form the side. Men wear a shirt that is tucked in the front of the longyi. The shirt has a collar and the men usually where a jacket over all of the clothes. ***CAL***

The women have a variety of different clothes styles. The women have been seen plane or handwoven motifs. The men's are usually just plaid. ***CAL***


 * Most of the tribes in the area originated from China. The Padaung tribe lives in Burma, but the area is also called Myanmar.The village medicine man puts on the brass rings, and puts an ointment on under them on the neck. By the time a girl is considered a woman, the brass rings weigh up to 20 pounds! That's not including the rings on the legs and arms. Lately, the practice of using the neck rings has shrunk down a little since a few people of the area have changed to a new culture or religion. The Padaung tribe also considers other things beautiful too. After birth, all baby girls get their ears pierced- they believe earrings make a girl more beautiful. ***MATTY***

[] ***EMILY*** this is a Youtube video about The Padaung Tribe of Burma. It shows the women and the area they live in, I only got to watch part of it because of the buffering but it does show a lot about their coils and how it is their beauty.

As you can see at the above picture, when you are young the coils on the neck look as though a big necklace, and your neck looks like an normal size. But, as you get older the neck starts to get the apperance of looking much bigger. ***EMILY***

This picture shows a little girl and what I think is her mother. This child is much younger than the one above, and starts coils on her at this young of an age. It looks like her mothers neck is already getting longer but the little girls sill looks like a normal size. This shows how this is their true beauty since they start at such a young age. ***EMILY***

CLOTHING- men wear a skirt with a stiff collar tucked into the //longyi
 * they reach a total of 20 pounds throughout the years
 * **they perce their ears but it's becoming less common because of the expense
 * metal, silver, gold and bronze they get from the mountains in the area- gold is set with jems in it
 * HAIR STYLES- Men used to keep their hair long and coiled in a topknot; in the colonial period, men came to sport a short hair syle calld //bo-kay//
 * //WOMEN// are expected to have long hair after they reach adult hood, and keep their hair rolled into a bum or //chignon// They love to wear flowers at the side of their buns, like a garland of jasmine or a rosebud. Fragrance is appreciated more than beauty, so the //thazin,// a delicate and tiny orchid, is highly prized for it's haunting fragrence ; brides will pay a large sum to wear them in their hair on their wedding day! Now , young mothers, and even older women, have opted for short hair, much to the dismay of their mothers.
 * SARA*//