15 RINGS FOR DIGNITY
WOMAN IN CIRCUS LEEDS. July 21. A Leeds brass worker had the strangest job of his life yesterday when, at Woodhouse Moor, he fastened two brass rings round the neck of Muswaitha, youngest of the four Burmese giraffe-necked women in a travelling circus. Muswaitha, who had been saving up for the occasion, is 15, and already had 13 rings round her neck. The fully developed beauty queen in their little village of Padavng, in Burma, wears about 20. It is believed that this is the first time such a ceremony has taken place outside the jungle. It will give Muswaitha new social status among her people.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19423, 7 September 1937, Page 13
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11015 RINGS FOR DIGNITY Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19423, 7 September 1937, Page 13
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