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'Tight-lacing' in New Guinea. A boy of the Mekeo district who has passed through initiation ceremonies and is of an age to marry.
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India: a woman of the Garo tribe wearing heavy earrings which have greatly distended her ear-lobes. Process print, 190-.
Date: [between 1900 and 1909?]Reference: 645669i- Pictures
Chad (?): a woman of the Sara tribe with greatly distended upper and lower lips. Photograph of process print, 19--.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999?]Reference: 645684i- Pictures
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Rubiana lagoon, Kimbo (?), Solomon Islands: a man with his ears distended by large earrings. Photograph.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999?]Reference: 645444i- Pictures
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Assam: boys of the Konyak Naga tribe, showing the effect of tight waist-belts made of cane. Photograph by Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf, ca. 1937.
Fürer-Haimendorf, Christoph von, 1909-1995.Date: [1937?]Reference: 644767i- Pictures
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Rubiana lagoon, Solomon Islands: a man with his ears distended by large earrings. Photograph.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999?]Reference: 645441i- Pictures
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Cranial deformation: two skulls of Salish people. Photograph by G.S. Boice.
Boice, G.S.Date: [between 1800 and 1899?]Reference: 644309i- Pictures
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Pekon, Myanmar (Burma): eleven Padaung people, including four who wear neck-rings to lengthen the neck. Photograph, 19--.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999]Reference: 644960i- Digital Images
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Skull showing cranial elongation, Vanuatu Republic.
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Babies with tightly bandaged heads.
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Papua New Guinea (?): a man with a large metal or wooden sculpture through a hole in his nose. Photograph by E.W. Pearson Chinnery (?).
Chinnery, E. W. Pearson (Ernest William Pearson), 1887-1972.Date: [between 1900 and 1999]Reference: 644827i- Digital Images
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Elongation of the head, Mowe, N. Britain
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Myanmar (Burma): a Padaung woman wearing neck-rings to lengthen the neck. Process print after a bronze sculpture by Malvina Hoffman, ca. 1933.
Hoffman, Malvina, 1885-1966.Date: [1933?]Reference: 644971i- Pictures
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Papua New Guinea (?): a man with a large pin through a hole in his nose. Photograph by E.W. Pearson Chinnery (?).
Chinnery, E. W. Pearson (Ernest William Pearson), 1887-1972.Date: [between 1900 and 1999]Reference: 644826i- Pictures
Myanmar (Burma): two Padaung women who wear neck-rings to lengthen the neck. Process print, 19--.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999]Reference: 644969i- Digital Images
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Nose pin, Aboriginal, Northern Australia.
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Papua New Guinea (?): a man with a woman and child. Photograph by E.W. Pearson Chinnery (?).
Chinnery, E. W. Pearson (Ernest William Pearson), 1887-1972.Date: [between 1900 and 1999]Reference: 646138i- Digital Images
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Nose pin, Aboriginal, Northern Australia.
H. King- Pictures
Myanmar (Burma): neck-rings worn by Padaung women to lengthen the neck. Process print, 19--.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999]Reference: 644970i- Digital Images
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Extended ear lobe, Rubriand, Solomon Islands.
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Model of haida Shaman's gravehouse.
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Guam: a woman holding a bowl and a man holding a staff. Etching by Prot after J. Arago.
Arago, Jacques, 1790-1855.Date: [between 1827 and 1839?]Reference: 3215608i- Digital Images
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Waist constriction by cane belts, Konyak Naga
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A boy with deep scars on his forehead as a result of surgery, in an attempt to cure epilepsy and headaches, Bismarck Archipelago (Papua New Guinea). Halftone.
Reference: 21405i- Books
The bioarchaeology of the human head : decapitation, decoration, and deformation / edited by Michelle Bonogofsky ; foreword by Clark Spencer Larsen.
Date: [2011], ©2011