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Lips - Deformities, Artificial

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Images about Lips - Deformities, Artificial

3 images from works
  • 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.
  • Botocudo people of the Rio-Grande de Belmonte, Brazil. Coloured aquatint by G. Gallina, ca. 1821, after M. Wied-Neuwied.

Works from the collections

5 works

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    Brazil: Krenak people (Botocudos) with lip-plugs and ear-plugs (Botocudos). Photograph.

    | Date: [between 1900 and 1999] | Reference: 646158i
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    Central African Republic (Ubangi Shari): a woman with greatly distended upper and lower lips. Process print after a bronze sculpture by Malvina Hoffman, ca. 1933.

    | Malvina Hoffman | Date: [1933?] | Reference: 645685i
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    Chad (?): a woman of the Sara tribe with greatly distended upper and lower lips. Photograph of process print, 19--.

    | Date: [between 1900 and 1999?] | Reference: 645684i
    • Pictures
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    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--.

    | Kurt Lubinski | Date: [between 1900 and 1999] | Reference: 646061i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Botocudo people of the Rio-Grande de Belmonte, Brazil. Coloured aquatint by G. Gallina, ca. 1821, after M. Wied-Neuwied.

    | Prince Maximilian of Wied-Neuwied | Date: [1821] | Reference: 2498729i

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Ear - Deformities, Artificial

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