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Concept

Lips

Images

  • 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--.
  • The lips of a man and woman kissing with the message in German 'Humanity is contagious. An HIV-positive man does not kiss'; an advertisement by the AIDS-Hilfe. Colour lithograph by PK&P.
  • 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.
  • A woman (possibly intended to be African) with pouting lips in elaborate head gear. Engraving by B. Bossi, 1776 (?), after himself.
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    The lips of a man and woman kissing with the message in German 'Humanity is contagious. An HIV-positive man does not kiss'; an advertisement by the AIDS-Hilfe. Colour lithograph by PK&P.

    | Date: [between 1990 and 1999] | Reference: 675278i
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    Brazil: Krenak people (Botocudos) with lip-plugs and ear-plugs (Botocudos). Photograph.

    | Date: [between 1900 and 1999] | Reference: 646158i
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    Central African Republic (Ubangi Shari): a woman with greatly distended upper and lower lips. Process print after a bronze sculpture by Malvina Hoffman, ca. 1933.

    Hoffman, Malvina, 1885-1966. | Date: [1933?] | Reference: 645685i
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    Contributions to teratology : undescribed malformation of the lower lip occurring in four members of one family / by J. Jardine Murray.

    Murray, John Jardine. | Date: 1860
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    Heat-sensitive pits on lips of a Python

    Royal Veterinary College
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