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  • A young woman with extensive scarification on her face, wearing a hat of foliage: side view. Photograph.
  • A young man (?) with elaborate scarification on his face. Photograph.
  • A young woman with extensive scarification on her face, wearing a hat of foliage: front view. Photograph.
  • 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.
  • A North African woman with scarification on her cheeks. Photograph attributed to G. Lekegian, ca. 1900.
  • An Aboriginal man with a scarification on his shoulder. Photograph by Henry King, ca. 1890.
  • Bamenda, Cameroon, West Africa: a Nda woman, standing to attention, 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--.
  • Australia: an aboriginal woman with a bone through her 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.
  • A young man of the Konyak Naga tribe, India, holding a human head. Photograph.
  • 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.