Discover Myanmar Magazine

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MORE THAN A SIDE SHOW FREAK PEOPLE

THE STORY OF MU KAUN

By- DANIEL WINE / Photographs by- YE MYAT TUN

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M A 1934 poster advertising Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus entertainer Mu Kaun, a Kayan Lahwi tribeswoman, labels her as a “Giraffe-Neck Woman” and “The Most Startling Discovery of the Century.”


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