Burma / Myanmar: Palaung women (noted for their wooden waist bands) at a market in Pindaya, Burma

The Palaung are an ethnic minority that is indigenous to northern Burma, but also has pockets of people in Thailand and China’s Yunnan Province. Mostly resident in Shan State, the Palaung have a population of about 500,000.

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David Henley

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Pictures From Asia