Artificial deformation, 2 Labrets (lip plugs), 1 lip stud

Brazil: Krenak people (Botocudos) with lip-plugs and ear-plugs (Botocudos). Photograph.

Botocudo people of the Rio-Grande de Belmonte, Brazil. Coloured aquatint by G. Gallina, ca. 1821, after M. Wied-Neuwied.

Three wooden semi circular labrets (lip plugs), from N.W. coast of Africa. Semi-circular, grooved, worn in lower lip.

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--.

Malaita, Solomon Islands: a man with shaped teeth. Photograph.

Nigeria: a man at Egbe with shaped front teeth. Photograph.

British Togoland or Ghana: a man with metal woven into his hair. Photograph by Kurt Lubinski, 19--.

Cranial deformation. Photograph by E. W. Pearson Chinnery.

Bones of the ribcage and pelvis: two figures, showing the appearance of the ribcage and spine in both its natural state, and when distorted by tight lacing. Etching with watercolour, 1864.

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M0003707: Skull with artificial deformities

On the nature, prevention, treatment, and cure of spinal curvatures and deformities of the chest and limbs, without artificial supports or any mechanical appliances / by Mrs Godfrey.

Manual of artificial limbs : copiously illustrated : artificial toes, feet, legs, fingers, hands, arms : for amputations and deformities, appliances for excisions, fractures, and other disabilities of lower and upper extremities : suggestions on amputations, treatment of stumps, history, etc., etc., etc. : an exhaustive exposition of prosthesis.

Manual of artificial limbs : artificial toes, feet, legs, fingers, hands, arms, for amputations and deformities, appliances for excisions, fractures, and other disabilities of lower and upper extremities, suggestions on amputations, treatment of stumps, history, ... an exhaustive exposition of prothesis.

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On the nature, prevention, treatment, and cure of spinal curvatures and deformities of the chest and limbs, without artificial supports or any mechanical appliances / by Mrs Godfrey.