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In elusive Chin State, women are famed for their tattooed faces. Traditional reasons vary slightly, from the Chin women being so beautiful that the menfolk tattooed their faces to disguise their beauty from marauding Burmese, to mothers tattooing their daughters in fear of the King taking them as concubines.

This woman was one of the younger ones, and with her still-vivid tattoos and penchant for ear spacers (while some of the other women let their stretched holes gape freely), seemed to quite accustomed having her portrait taken.