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Added: 2026-06-06

[00:00:00]The long-neck people in Burma, Myanmar, are the Kayan Lahwi people, a subgroup of the Kayan ethnic minority originally from Kaya and Shan states. Famous for the brass coils worn by women, this practice is a cultural symbol of identity, beauty, and grace. The brass coils do not actually stretch the neck.

[00:00:17]Instead, the weight of the heavy coils pushes the collarbone down and compresses the rib cage, creating the illusion of a longer neck.

[00:00:24]>> [music] >> Young girls begin wearing the brass coils around the age of five. Over time, these coils are replaced with longer ones and more turns are added as they grow. The Kayan are a Tibeto-Burmese group. Due to long-running ethnic and political conflicts in Myanmar, thousands fled to neighboring Thailand in the late 1980s, [music] where many settled in border refugee camps.