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  • New Georgia, Solomon Islands: a man with his ears distended by heavy earrings. Photograph.
  • A girl is held by her mother as another woman pierces her ear for an earring. Engraving after D. Wilkie, 1835.
  • Rubiana lagoon, Solomon Islands: a man with his ears distended by large earrings. Photograph.
  • A child with plugs in holes in his earlobes - to gradually increase the size, for ornamental purposes. Halftone after a photograph by J.W. Beattie.
  • Rubiana lagoon, Kimbo (?), Solomon Islands: a man with his ears distended by large earrings. Photograph.
  • East Africa: a Masai woman wearing heavy armlets, ear-lobe distenders, necklets etc. Process print, 190-.