What distinguishes Kayah women from Kayan women is the absence of copper spirals around the blow replaced by elongated pyramid-shaped earrings stretching the lobes as well as the coated and hardened cotton rings Hardened with black lacquer, sometimes supplemented with silver rings.
On the other hand it is necessary to obtain authorization from the village (special request). Then arrived on the spot a guide Kayah of the village serves as interpreter for the guide who accompanies me, this one speaks Burmese, English and the Kayan language, but does not include that of the Kayah. As for the Kayan villages, we visit several similar houses also on bamboo piles and it is mainly the women who are present. I did not really know what the men were doing at the same time.
We are welcomed in small houses on stilts built of bamboo for the most part with palm roofs like those of the Kayan villages.
Portraits of women of the Kayah ethnic group of Burma.
These photos were made in several families of this group of Kayah villages.
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