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Evening Post, Issue 25, 30 January 1935, Page 17

Three native women- from Burma, with ''giraffe'' necks, who appear in Mr. Bertram Mills's circus at Olympia, arrived at Southampton from New York in the Cunard-White Star liner Bercngaria. They are Padaungs, a tribe which for many hundreds of years has observed a custom, of placing brass rings round the necks of women. Sometimes as much as 501b or 601b of brass has been used on the neck of: one woman. The rings, which are fitted in secret ritual, average 16in, and some of; the Burmese women, in consequence of the custom, have necks far longer than that. Thej rings are never taken off; if .they were removed, the women would have no control of their heads.