M0005699: Japanese husband and wife with mutilated noses, as punishment for an offence

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Reproduction of a photograph of a man and woman with mutilated noses, done as punishment for an offence. Published in Hutchinson, Walter: <i>Customs of the world : a popular account of the manners, rites and ceremonies of men and women in all countries</i>, London: Hutchinson, 1913. A photograph of the book plate was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1938 (accession number PHO 10881).

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M0005699: Japanese husband and wife with mutilated noses, as punishment for an offence

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