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  • Nose pin, Aboriginal, Northern Australia.
  • Babies with tightly bandaged heads.
  • Pekon, Myanmar (Burma): eleven Padaung people, including four who wear neck-rings to lengthen the neck. Photograph, 19--.
  • Scarified Munshi women, Katsina Ala, Nigeria.
  • Posterior view of cranium deformed according to fashion
  • Waist constriction by cane belts, Konyak Naga
  • Posterior view of cranium deformed according to fashion
  • Cranial deformation in Bougainville. Photograph by T.J. Macmahon, ca. 1919.
  • Upper front teeth altered to fashion: African and Malay
  • Model of haida Shaman's gravehouse.
  • Sea Dayak woman in The Pagan Tribes of Borneo
  • A group of Nyam-nyam
  • Illustration of a group of Nyam-nyam showing their sharpened teeth.
  • Medicine of Aborigenal Peoples in the British Commonwealth Exhibition.
  • Cranial deformation: two skulls of Salish people. Photograph by G.S. Boice.
  • The scarifacation instruments, Indigenous American
  • Knocking out a girl's tooth, Kaitish people, Australia.
  • Piece of stone with channel all around for distending ear.
  • A man of the Konyak Naga tribe, with a necklace indicating that he has cut off a man's head. Photograph by Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf, ca. 1937.
  • A man of the Konyak Naga tribe, with plugs distorting his ears and a necklace indicating the number of heads he has cut off. Photograph.
  • Australia: an aboriginal woman with a bone through her nose. Photograph by Henry King, ca. 1890.
  • Illustrations of Acatrigatun cicatrization designs, Australia?
  • Three trephinated skulls of people who may have suffered from headaches or epilepsy, Papua New Guinea. Halftone.
  • New Georgia, Solomon Islands: a man with his ears distended by heavy earrings. Photograph.
  • Australia: an aboriginal man (Ned Woolnah?) with a bone through his nose. Photograph by Henry King, ca. 1890.
  • A man from Easter island (Rapa Nui), with elongated ears, encountered by Captain Cook on his second voyage, 1772-1775. Engraving by F. Bartolozzi, 1777, after W. Hodges.
  • Chief of the Uma Poh Kayans, with ears pierced
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Hall
  • Tatooing in Abyssinia, two women of the Gurag' Tribe. Blue colouring matter is applied in the form of bracelets and rings to the hand and wrist. A needle or small brush is used.
  • Wellcome museum: primitive medicine, body deformation