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Africa: a woman with scarification on her chest and arms, and with plugs in her ear-lobes and lower lip. Photograph by Kurt Lubinski, 19--.

Papua New Guinea (?): a woman with a massive scarification over her clavicles. Photograph by E.W. Pearson Chinnery (?).

A North African woman with scarification on her cheeks. Photograph by G. Lekegian, ca. 1900.

Bamenda, Cameroon, West Africa: a Nda woman, standing to attention, with scarification on her trunk and arms. Photograph, 1937.

A young woman with extensive scarification on her face, wearing a hat of foliage: side view. Photograph.

A North African woman with scarification on her cheeks. Photograph attributed to G. Lekegian, ca. 1900.

Australia: an aboriginal woman with a bone through her nose. Photograph by Henry King, ca. 1890.

Sierra Leone: a tattooed man of the Kissi people collecting money. Photograph, 19--.

Australia: an aboriginal man (Ned Woolnah?) with a bone through his nose. Photograph by Henry King, ca. 1890.

A man of Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania) encountered by Captain Cook during his third voyage, 1776-1780. Engraving by J. Caldwall, 1784 after J. Webber, 1777.

Nigeria: two examples of scarification in Munshi women, Katsina Ala. Photograph.

M0003731: Cherokee scarification instrument

M0003747: Cicatrization on the back, Latuka people

M0005583: Drawings of cicatrization designs, Torres Strait Islands

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Nigeria: two examples of scarification in Munshi women, Katsina Ala. Photograph.

M0003731: Cherokee scarification instrument

M0003747: Cicatrization on the back, Latuka people

M0005583: Drawings of cicatrization designs, Torres Strait Islands

A North African woman with scarification on her cheeks. Photograph by G. Lekegian, ca. 1900.