"Long-neck" women suffer indignity and discomfort for a meager livelihood... "Tribal tradition has placed 23 brass rings around Ma Ja?s neck. And tribal tradition has condemned her to a life that she compares to the zoo existence of a caged animal. Ma Ja, a 23-year-old Padaung woman living in one of three so-called "long-neck" villages near Mae Hong Son in northern Thailand, is proud of her tradition, but she hates the life that it brings. "But what else can I do?" she asks. She earns 1,500 baht (US $38) a month and a few meager rations by parading with other long-neck women before camera-toting tourists who pay 250 baht ($6.25) to enter her village, Huay Sua Tao, one of three Padaung communities on the Mae Hong Son hill-tribetrail..."