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Concept

Artificial deformation

Images

  • Deformation, skull showing fronto-occipital flattening
  • The scarifacation instruments, Indigenous American
  • African showing cicatrization on the back.
  • Artificial deformation, two lip plugs.
  • Silhouettes of hands on wall of cave showing mutilation...and Virchow's figures showing mutilated hands of Bushmen.
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Catalogue

    • Digital Images
    • Online

    Posterior view of cranium deformed according to fashion

    • Digital Images
    • Online

    Deformation, skull showing fronto-occipital flattening

    • Digital Images
    • Online

    Artificial deformation, 2 Labrets (lip plugs), 1 lip stud

    • Digital Images
    • Online

    Posterior view of cranium deformed according to fashion

    • Digital Images
    • Online

    Three wooden semi circular labrets (lip plugs), from N.W. coast of Africa. Semi-circular, grooved, worn in lower lip.

All works (6)

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