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The rings' numbers in a woman's body determine how beautiful she actually looks. The rings are heavy, weighing almost 30 pounds. Not many have the skill to fit into the rings in a woman's neck or take them out. One has to be expert to do the job.
All the bachelors and the widowers live in a hostel in a Padaung village. Once they marry, they leave the hostel. As for the marriage of Padaung couple, the day is decided by killing a pig. If the liver of the pig remains exact, the marriage takes place. It is tested thrice. The simple-minded people of the tribe avoid marriage between relatives, to the extent of nine generations.
You can almost never encounter a Kayaw man. The Kayaw tribe resides in the remote part of the hilly Kayah State. When a Kayaw man reaches the age of forty, he cuts off a tree to make his coffin out of its wood. After his demise, the corpse is inserted into the coffin and is dangled from a cliff or sited in a cave.
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