Burden of beauty
From the age of five, young girls’ necks are wrapped in brass coils, pushing the collar bone down and collapsing the lungs so that, by the time they are teens, their necks appear to be elongated. This young girl , her mother, and aunt, were kept by the owner of a restaurant for tourists to view in a zoo like area.
© Kieron Nelson 2008 "Vanishing Cultures Photography" All rights reserved
