Where My Chicken Heads At?

Photographer: Jason Pohl
From: Siem Reap
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Where My Chicken Heads At?

All over the temples are carvings of ancient Khmer dancers who used to dance topless. The King said to have about 2,000 dancing girls, who were also his concubines. Siam (Thailand) invaded and toppled Angkor and took all of the dancing girls with them. Sadly, the Siamese then enforced their custom of wearing costumes to cover the upper body of women, and that has been the case ever since:(