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Concept

Body piercing

Images

  • Borneo: a Kenyah man demonstrating the blowpipe, Sarawak, North Borneo. Photograph attributed to Charles Hose.
  • AIDS : guidelines for ear piercers : don't die of ignorance / prepared by the Department of Health and Social Security and the Central Office of Information.
  • Borneo: a Dyak man demonstrating the blowpipe. Photograph, 19--.
  • AIDS : guidelines for ear piercers : don't die of ignorance / prepared by the Department of Health and Social Security and the Central Office of Information.
  • AIDS : guidelines for ear piercers : don't die of ignorance / prepared by the Department of Health and Social Security and the Central Office of Information.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    A guide to hygienic skin piercing : tattoos, acupuncture, ear piercing, hair electrolysis / by Norman D. Noah.

    Noah, N. D. (Norman D.) | Date: 1983
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    [Undated newspaper cutting (early 19th century?) about Dock, the Wild Indian Venus, a Brazilian of the Butucudos tribe with a lower lip plate and ear tips resting on her shoulders, to be seen "at the Crown Hotel". ].

    | Date: [between 1800 and 1850?]
    • Books

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

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

    Borneo: a Kenyah man demonstrating the blowpipe, Sarawak, North Borneo. Photograph attributed to Charles Hose.

    Hose, Charles, 1863-1929. | Date: [between 1900 and 1999] | Reference: 663405i
    • Pictures

    Sadomasochism leather gear including a mask, a dildo, handcuffs, nipple piercing chains, a collar and a whip; advertising safe sex. Colour lithograph by J. Mang and trash line design for the Deutsche AIDS-Hilfe e.V.

    | Date: [between 1990 and 1999] | Reference: 676858i
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