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  • Sea Dayaks, male and female figures showing types of dress
  • Deformation, skull showing fronto-occipital flattening
  • The scarifacation instruments, Indigenous American
  • Shaped piece of wood for distending the lower lip.
  • Illustrations of tattoo designs used in Medicine
  • Extended ear lobe, Rubriand, Solomon Islands.
  • Knocking out a girl's tooth, Kaitish people, Australia.
  • Illustrations of Acatrigatun cicatrization designs, Australia?
  • A Lirong girl with ears pierced and stretched.
  • Nose pin, Aboriginal, Northern Australia.
  • African showing cicatrization on the back.
  • Artificial deformation, two lip plugs.
  • Sea Dayaks, a half-length male figure with long hair
  • Silhouettes of hands on wall of cave showing mutilation...and Virchow's figures showing mutilated hands of Bushmen.
  • An Ukir of the Upper Rejang with ears pierced
  • Piece of bone used for artificial deformation of the ear lobe
  • Skull showing cranial elongation, Vanuatu Republic.
  • Piece of stone with channel all around for distending ear.
  • Posterior view of cranium deformed according to fashion
  • 'Tight-lacing' in New Guinea. A boy of the Mekeo district who has passed through initiation ceremonies and is of an age to marry.
  • Sea Dayaks, female figure wearing spiral corsets decorated with medals
  • Waist constriction by cane belts, Konyak Naga
  • Elongation of the head, Mowe, N. Britain
  • Posterior view of cranium deformed according to fashion
  • Deformed skull of Koskeemo Indian, Vancouver Island
  • Three wooden semi circular labrets (lip plugs), from N.W. coast of Africa. Semi-circular, grooved, worn in lower lip.
  • Artificial deformation, 2 Labrets (lip plugs), 1 lip stud
  • Corsets worn by Sea Dayaks and Land Dayak women
  • Customs of the World; illustration of a Bagoba
  • Chief of the Uma Poh Kayans, with ears pierced