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  • Deformation, skull showing fronto-occipital flattening
  • Extended ear lobe, Rubriand, Solomon Islands.
  • Knocking out a girl's tooth, Kaitish people, Australia.
  • Nose pin, Aboriginal, Northern Australia.
  • Skull showing cranial elongation, Vanuatu Republic.
  • 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.
  • Waist constriction by cane belts, Konyak Naga
  • Elongation of the head, Mowe, N. Britain
  • Posterior view of cranium deformed according to fashion
  • 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
  • Nose pin, Aboriginal, Northern Australia.
  • Babies with tightly bandaged heads.
  • Model of haida Shaman's gravehouse.