Act of physical injury that degrades the appearance or function of any living body

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Herodias mutilating the severed head of Saint John the Baptist held by Salome. Oil painting attributed to Pieter de Grebber.

Rosie Ground (Cut nose), a Blackfeet Indian. Pastel by W. Langdon Kihn, 1926.

Amoy (Xiamen), Fukien province, China: a thief with his thumbs chopped off. Photograph by John Thomson, 1871.

Anthropometamorphosis: man transform'd; or, the artificial changeling. Historically presented, in the mad and cruel gallantry, foolish bravery, ridiculous beauty, filthy finenesse, and loathsome lovelinesse of most nations, fashioning and altering their bodies from the mould intended by nature. With a vindication of the regular beauty and honesty of nature. And an appendix of the pedigree of the English gallant / By J.B. sirnamed, the Chirosopher.

Varieties of torture in Asia. Etching by R. de Hooghe, 1682.

Afghanistan: the retinue of Shah Shoojau-Ool-Moolk, including his Chief Executioner and a Mutilator. Lithograph by L. Haghe after L.W. Hart, 1843.

Anthropometamorphosis, man transform'd, or, The artificial changeling : historically presented in the mad and cruel gallantry, foolish bravery, ridiculous beauty, filthy finenesse, and loathsome lovelinesse of most nations, fashioning & altering their bodies from the mould intended by nature : with a vindication of the regular beauty and honesty of nature and an appendix of the pedigree of the English gallant / by J.B.

M0016583: Two Peruvian pots in the form of a human figure with a mutilated nose and mouth and a human figure with an abscess of the neck

M0016582: Peruvian pot in the form of a human figure with a mutilated nose and mouth

M0019110: Zande person mutilated as punishment for adultery

Prisoners of the Tchaudor tribe having their eyes cut out with a knife in Khiva, Uzbekistan. Wood engraving by F.-J. Gauchard after É. Bayard, ca. 1868.

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Mutilation

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M0016583: Two Peruvian pots in the form of a human figure with a mutilated nose and mouth and a human figure with an abscess of the neck

M0016582: Peruvian pot in the form of a human figure with a mutilated nose and mouth

M0019110: Zande person mutilated as punishment for adultery

Prisoners of the Tchaudor tribe having their eyes cut out with a knife in Khiva, Uzbekistan. Wood engraving by F.-J. Gauchard after É. Bayard, ca. 1868.

Mutilation

Images from the collections

Images referencing Mutilation

Works from the collections

M0016583: Two Peruvian pots in the form of a human figure with a mutilated nose and mouth and a human figure with an abscess of the neck

M0016582: Peruvian pot in the form of a human figure with a mutilated nose and mouth

M0019110: Zande person mutilated as punishment for adultery

Prisoners of the Tchaudor tribe having their eyes cut out with a knife in Khiva, Uzbekistan. Wood engraving by F.-J. Gauchard after É. Bayard, ca. 1868.

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