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Portrait of a long necked Padaung tribe woman, Mae Hong Son Province, Thailand, AsiaThe women of the Padaung hill tribe wear heavy brass ornaments around their neck and limbs. These ornaments look like separate rings but are really a continuous coil of brass that can weigh anywhere from five to twenty-two kilograms and measure up to 30 meter in length. The quantity of visual rings (in reality, the length of the brass coil) is increased every year, according to the age of the woman.

Portrait of a 'Long necked' Padaung tribe woman weaving on a hand held loom, Mae Hong Son Province, northern Thailand, Asia

Portrait of a 'Long necked' Padaung tribe woman weaving, Mae Hong Son Province, northern Thailand, Asia

Giant spiral incense coils at the Man Mo Chinese Temple, Central District, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, China, Asia

Snake Temple (Mwe Paya) between Dalah and Twante, across the river from Yangon, Myanmar (Burma), Asia

Spiral incense sticks at Ong Temple, Can Tho, Mekong Delta, Vietnam, Indochina, Southeast Asia, Asia

Ong Bon Pagoda in Cholon (Chinatown), Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam, Indochina, Southeast Asia, Asia

Incense coils in the Quan Am Buddhist Pagoda, Cholon, Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam, Indochina, Southeast Asia, Asia

Interior of prayer hall showing Taoist gods and offerings, Phuc Kien Assembly Hall, Hoi An, Vietnam, Indochina, Southeast Asia, Asia

Detail of traditional dress of Long Necked Padaung woman, Mae Hong Son Province, northern Thailand, Asia

Incense coils, Man Mo Temple, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), China, Asia

Incense coils, Man Mo Temple, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (SAR), China, Asia

A devout Joranda monk gathers his uncut hair to coil it on top of his head, surrounded by other monks, Joranda, Dhenkanal, Orissa, India, Asia

Incense coil burners, Thien Hau Buddhist Temple, Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam, Southeast Asia, Asia

Incense coil burners, Thien Hau Buddhist Temple, Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam, Southeast Asia, Asia

The Kamal factory in Bangalore, Karnataka, India that manufactures solar thermal panels for heating water.

Young girl of the Karen hill tribe wearing traditional neck coil at Baan Tong Luang, a village of Hmong people in Chiang Mai Province, Thailand.

Finished flat steel rolls waiting for shipment, steelworks of ArcelorMittal, Eisenhuettenstadt, Brandenburg, Germany, Europe

Finished flat steel rolls waiting for shipment, steelworks of ArcelorMittal, Eisenhuettenstadt, Brandenburg, Germany, Europe

Finished flat steel rolls waiting for shipment by freight train, steelworks of ArcelorMittal, Eisenhuettenstadt, Brandenburg, Germany, Europe

Coil of rolled sheet metal, Huettenwerk Krupp Mannesmann, HKM, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Coils of tinplate in the timplate-plant of Rasselstein-Hoesch in Andernach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.