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Ear - Deformities, Artificial

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Images about Ear - Deformities, Artificial

9 images from works
  • A man from Easter island (Rapa Nui), with elongated ears, encountered by Captain Cook on his second voyage, 1772-1775. Engraving by F. Bartolozzi, 1777, after W. Hodges.
  • 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--.
  • Brazil: Krenak people (Botocudos) with lip-plugs and ear-plugs (Botocudos). Photograph.
  • New Georgia, Solomon Islands: a man with his ears distended by heavy earrings. Photograph.
  • Botocudo people of the Rio-Grande de Belmonte, Brazil. Coloured aquatint by G. Gallina, ca. 1821, after M. Wied-Neuwied.
  • A man of the Konyak Naga tribe, with a necklace indicating that he has cut off a man's head. Photograph by Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf, ca. 1937.
  • A man of the Konyak Naga tribe, with plugs distorting his ears and a necklace indicating the number of heads he has cut off. Photograph.
  • Rubiana lagoon, Solomon Islands: a man with his ears distended by large earrings. Photograph.
  • Rubiana lagoon, Kimbo (?), Solomon Islands: a man with his ears distended by large earrings. Photograph.

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Ethnology
Earrings
Solomon Islands
Lips - Deformities, Artificial
Konyak (Indic people)