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Nigeria: two examples of scarification in Munshi women, Katsina Ala. Photograph.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999]Reference: 646057i
Archives and manuscripts
Online
M0003731: Cherokee scarification instrument
Date: 28 November 1933Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/30/99
Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
Archives and manuscripts
M0003747: Cicatrization on the back, Latuka people
Date: December 1933Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/31/14
Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
Archives and manuscripts
Online
M0005583: Drawings of cicatrization designs, Torres Strait Islands
Date: August 1938Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/45/95
Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
Pictures
Online
A North African woman with scarification on her cheeks. Photograph by G. Lekegian, ca. 1900.
Lekegian, Georges.Date: [1900?]Reference: 646091i
Pictures
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Australia: an aboriginal man (Ned Woolnah?) with a bone through his nose. Photograph by Henry King, ca. 1890.
King, Henry, 1855-1923.Date: [1890?]Reference: 644854i
Archives and manuscripts
Online
M0003730: Photograph of an individual with scarification on their back
Date: December 1933Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/30/98
Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
Pictures
An African man with ornamental facial scarring: in profile. Photograph by Kurt Lubinski, ca. 1940.
Lubinski, Kurt, 1899-1969.Date: 1940Reference: 580504i
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A young woman with extensive scarification on her face, wearing a hat of foliage: front view. Photograph.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999?]Reference: 645353i
Pictures
A woman poses in a photographic studio, visible scarification on her face.
Lekegian, G., active 1880-approximately 1920.Date: [between 1880 and 1920]Reference: 3307382i
Part of: The Fallaize Collection.
Pictures
Bamenda, Cameroon, West Africa: a Nda woman, walking, with scarification on her trunk and arms. Photograph, 1937.
Date: 15 Jan 1937Reference: 644810i
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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--.
Lubinski, Kurt, 1899-1969.Date: [between 1900 and 1999]Reference: 646061i
Archives and manuscripts
Online
M0005673: Two photographs of scarified Tiv women, Katsina-Ala, Nigeria
Date: September 1938Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/46/82
Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
Pictures
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Papua New Guinea (?): a woman with a massive scarification over her clavicles. Photograph by E.W. Pearson Chinnery (?).
Chinnery, E. W. Pearson (Ernest William Pearson), 1887-1972.Date: [between 1900 and 1999]Reference: 646048i
Archives and manuscripts
M0003744: Facial scarification relating to the Mongo tribe, Upper Congo
Date: December 1933Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/31/11
Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
Pictures
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An Aboriginal man with a scarification on his shoulder. Photograph by Henry King, ca. 1890.
King, Henry, 1855-1923.Date: [1890?]Reference: 646090i
Part of: The Fallaize Collection.
Pictures
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A young man of the Konyak Naga tribe, India, holding a human head. Photograph.
Date: 1900-1999Reference: 663208i
Pictures
Online
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.
Webber, John, 1751-1793.Date: [1784]Reference: 566211i
Pictures
Online
A North African woman with scarification on her cheeks. Photograph attributed to G. Lekegian, ca. 1900.
Lekegian, Georges.Date: [1900?]Reference: 646092i
Pictures
A woman poses in a photographic studio, wearing a nose ring.
Lekegian, G., active 1880-approximately 1920.Date: [between 1880 and 1920]Reference: 3307383i
Part of: The Fallaize Collection.
Pictures
Online
Bamenda, Cameroon, West Africa: a Nda woman, standing to attention, with scarification on her trunk and arms. Photograph, 1937.
Date: 15 Jan 1937Reference: 644806i
Books
In the flesh : the cultural politics of body modification / Victoria L. Pitts.
Pitts-Taylor, Victoria.Date: 2003
Pictures
Online
A young man (?) with elaborate scarification on his face. Photograph.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999?]Reference: 645351i
Pictures
G. Lekegian & Co.
Lekegian, G., active 1880-approximately 1920.Date: [between 1880 and 1920]Reference: 3307377i
Part of: The Fallaize Collection.
Books
Online
Extensive ravages from lupus, with subsequent cicatrization, leaving but one small hole in the face which represents both mouth and nose, and with complete closure of the anterior nasal orifices / by Julian J. Chisholm.
Chisolm, Julian John, 1830-1903.Date: [1882]

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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.

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

M0003730: Photograph of an individual with scarification on their back

An African man with ornamental facial scarring: in profile. Photograph by Kurt Lubinski, ca. 1940.

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

A woman poses in a photographic studio, visible scarification on her face.

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

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--.

M0005673: Two photographs of scarified Tiv women, Katsina-Ala, Nigeria

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

M0003744: Facial scarification relating to the Mongo tribe, Upper Congo

An Aboriginal man with a scarification on his shoulder. Photograph by Henry King, ca. 1890.

A young man of the Konyak Naga tribe, India, holding a human head. Photograph.

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.

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

A woman poses in a photographic studio, wearing a nose ring.

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

In the flesh : the cultural politics of body modification / Victoria L. Pitts.

A young man (?) with elaborate scarification on his face. Photograph.

G. Lekegian & Co.

Extensive ravages from lupus, with subsequent cicatrization, leaving but one small hole in the face which represents both mouth and nose, and with complete closure of the anterior nasal orifices / by Julian J. Chisholm.