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  Kayang Longnecks (brass coils)

 

Thailand

The Kayang Longnecks wear brass coils from the age of four. From then onward loops are added about every three year, until the age of fourteen.

 

Children wear just a single set of spiral-shaped rings, whereas the coils of adults consist of up to three individual sets of coils.

 

  Kayang Longnecks (brass coils)

 

  Kayang Longnecks (brass coils)

 

The brass rings of adults consist of a main coil of 16-22 windings, with at the base a separate 5-6 coil winding, onto which a smaller coil of 62 mm diameter with 5 loops is attached perpendicularly, at the back.

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