Portrait of a woman with traditional tattooed face in Mindat, Chin State, Myanmar

Close-up portrait of old lady with glasses and traditional facial tattoo smoking a pipe, Mindat, Mindat Township, Mindat District, Chin State, Myanmar

Myanmar, Mindat. A Chin lady with traditional tattoed face, smoking her pipe.

Myanmar (Burma), Chin State, Mindat, local festival with traditional clothes

Old lady with traditional facial tattoo, Mindat, Mindat Township, Mindat District, Chin State, Myanmar

Myanmar, Mindat. A Chin lady with traditional tattoed face, enjoying her pipe.

Myanmar, Mindat. A Chin lady with traditional tattoed face, and large bamboo ear-rings.

Myanmar, Mindat. A Chin lady with traditional tattoed face, and large bamboo earrings.

Myanmar, Mindat. A Chin lady with traditional tattoed face.

Myanmar, Mindat. A Chin lady with traditional tattoed face, and large bamboo earrings.

Myanmar, Mindat. A senior member of the Mindat community dressed in his finery at a funeral.

Myanmar, Mindat. A Chin lady with traditional tattoed face, smoking her pipe and holding a water gourd.

Myanmar, Mindat. A Chin lady with traditional tattoed face, and her three sons.

Myanmar, Mrauk U. A lady of the Chin people with traditional tattooed face, standing in front of a painting on the wall of her home, in a small village up river from Mrauk U.

Myanmar, Mindat. A Chin lady with traditional tattoed face, and large bamboo earrings.

Myanmar, Mindat. A Chin lady with traditional tattoed face, smoking her pipe.

Myanmar (Burma), Chin State, Mindat, local festival with traditional clothes, some women have the face tattooed according to an old tradition

Myanmar (Burma), Chin State, Mindat, Taung Pu Lu buddhist monastery

Myanmar (Burma), Chin State, Mindat, Taung Pu Lu buddhist monastery

Woman of the Chin people, ethnic minority, with a traditional facial tattoo smoking a pipe, the last of their kind, portrait, Rakhine State, Myanmar, Asia

Myanmar, Chin State, Kyi Chaung Village. A Chin woman with tattooed face. It was customary in the past for girls to be tattooed at 14 or 15 years old, a painful process which took two days.

Portrait of a woman with traditional tattooed face in Mindat, Chin State, Myanmar

Portrait of a woman with traditional tattooed face in Mindat, Chin State, Myanmar

Close-up portrait of old lady with glasses and traditional facial tattoo smoking a pipe, Mindat, Mindat Township, Mindat District, Chin State, Myanmar

Old lady with glasses and traditional facial tattoo smoking a pipe, Mindat, Mindat Township, Mindat District, Chin State, Myanmar

Portrait of a woman with traditional tattooed face in Mindat, Chin State, Myanmar

Male chief of a village dressed in traditional clothes near Mindat, Mindat Township, Mindat District, Chin State, Myanmar

Woman with traditional facial tattoo smoking a pipe, Mindat, Mindat Township, Mindat District, Chin State, Myanmar

Old lady with traditional facial tattoo playing a nose flute, Mindat, Mindat Township, Mindat District, Chin State, Myanmar

Artefacts found around Mindat from British soldiers displayed in Mindat Museum, Mindat Township, Mindat District, Chin State, Myanmar

Detail of monkey skulls displayed in Mindat Museum, Mindat Township, Mindat District, Chin State, Myanmar

Skulls of animals hunted around Mindat on display in Mindat Museum, Mindat Township, Mindat District, Chin State, Myanmar

Myanmar, Mindat. A Chin lady with her child, smoking a pipe on her verandah.

Myanmar, Mindat. A Chin lady with traditional tattoed face, and large beaded ear-rings.

Myanmar, Mindat. A Chin lady with traditional tattoed face, smoking her pipe.

Myanmar, Mindat. A Chin lady with traditional tattoed face.

Myanmar, Mindat. A Chin lady with traditional tattoed face.

Myanmar, Mindat. A Chin lady with traditional tattoed face.

Myanmar, Mindat. A Chin lady with traditional tattoed face, clutching a large pipe.

Myanmar, Mindat. Two Chin ladies with traditional tattoed faces, enjoying a joke.