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Body Modification, Non-Therapeutic

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Beauty, Personal
Manners and customs

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Images from the collections

Images about Body Modification, Non-Therapeutic

7 images from works
  • Borneo: a Dyak man demonstrating the blowpipe. Photograph, 19--.
  • A Zulu medicine man or shaman. Halftone.
  • A shaman or medicine man with extensive body painting and nose stick, Australia. Colour process print.
  • A shaman or medicine man with extensive body painting, Worgaia, Central Australia. Process print.
  • Two Malayan exorcists dressed in elaborate ritual costume. Halftone after a photograph by Wiele & Klein.
  • A native American medicine man with elaborate body painting performing a dance. Wood engraving, 1873.
  • A medicine or shaman adorned with white paint, standing above a sick man trying to drive away the disease. Halftone.

Works from the collections

26 works

    • Books

    The customized body / Ted Polhemus ; photography by Housk Randall.

    Polhemus, Ted. | Date: 2000
    • Pictures
    • Online

    A shaman or medicine man with extensive body painting, Worgaia, Central Australia. Process print.

    | Reference: 21428i
    • Books

    Body modification / edited by Mike Featherstone.

    | Date: 2000
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Borneo: a Dyak man demonstrating the blowpipe. Photograph, 19--.

    | Date: [between 1900 and 1999] | Reference: 663403i
    • Archives and manuscripts

    M0003749: Woman with lip decoration with a lip disc, Jur people / M0003750: Woman with lip and nose pierced, Moru people

    | Date: December 1933 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/31/16
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive

Related topics

Ethnology
Face painting
Manners and customs
Ceremonial Behavior
Shamans
Indigenous Peoples
Medicine, Traditional
Tattooing
Tattooing
Body Piercing

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