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Painful tradition
In the middle of the burmese mountains an animist tribe still live like hundred years ago. The legend say that thousands years ago the princes and kings from the Pagan fields were stilling the wives of the farmers. To defend them families the tribes got the idea to tattoo the faces of them wife to make them ugly. Thousands years after you still can find those tribes and probably the last generation of "Chin womens" in the mountaineers region of Burma, close to the Mt Victoria and the Bangladesh
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| Date Taken: | Jun 3, 2017 |
| Date Uploaded: | Jun 3, 2017 |
| Location: | Rangoon, Yangon, Myanmar |
| Copyright: | © Leandre Deryckere |
| Categories: | Culture, Portraits, Travel |
| Assignments: | Traditions Around the World |