A Kenyah woman from Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia, with distended ear lobes. The ear lobes are pierced at an early age and when the hole is sufficiently large a copper ring is inserted and eventually others are added until the the lobe reaches to below the collar bone, the weight on each ear can be as much as two and a half pounds. After a 19th century photograph.
A Kenyah woman from Sarawak, Borneo, Malaysia, with distended ear lobes. The ear lobes are pierced at an early age and when the hole is sufficiently large a copper ring is inserted and eventually others are added until the the lobe reaches to below the collar bone, the weight on each ear can be as much as two and a half pounds. After a 19th century photograph. From Customs of The World, published circa 1913.
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