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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