Birthday Cake - from our story '‘Giraffe Neck’ Padaung Women Tour London And New York Circuses: 1900-1957'

25th August 1936: A Burmese woman, with traditional neck-extending rings, celebrates her twenty-first birthday with a cake in Folkestone with her friend. They are both part of Bertram Mills Circus, where they are billed as the 'giraffe-necked Burmese ladies'. (Photo by A. J. O'Brien/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

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