Crumbling Burmese Architecture for WSJ Magazine » rowat_wsjm_20121022_7137-12.Jpg
Munaung, a 69-year old Padaung woman in Ywama Village. Ywama Village is a ‘floating’ village on the Western side of Lake Inle. Every five days it plays host to the regional market. The Padaung are a minority group whose members are both in Shan State in Myanmar, as well as in Northern Thailand. In Northern Thailand members of the group refer to themselves as Kayan Lahwi, as opposed to the Shan term Padaung. The group is a branch of the Red Karen Tibeto-Burmese ethnicity.
