Since her husband Richard's death in March 2023, widow Fran Bukrey has held close to his wedding ring, finding comfort in wearing the treasured jewelry piece on a chain around her neck.

Interestingly, there is also a tribe located in South Africa and Zimbabwe where the women wear neck rings. As part of their tradition, the women of the South Ndebele tribe wear metal neck rings ...

A few of the women were buried with elaborate neck rings, which "are found only on necks in female burials and were apparently a kind of social marker," in this region at the time, Baranov told ...