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Concept

Scarification (Body marking)

Images

  • 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--.
  • Papua New Guinea (?): a woman with a massive scarification over her clavicles. Photograph by E.W. Pearson Chinnery (?).
  • A North African woman with scarification on her cheeks. Photograph by G. Lekegian, ca. 1900.
  • Bamenda, Cameroon, West Africa: a Nda woman, standing to attention, with scarification on her trunk and arms. Photograph, 1937.
  • A young woman with extensive scarification on her face, wearing a hat of foliage: side view. Photograph.
All images (14)

Catalogue

    • Archives and manuscripts

    M0003751: Stone lancets and scarificators / M0003752: Illustration of 13 pieces of Moxa

    | Date: December 1933 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/31/17
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Pictures

    Nigeria: two examples of scarification in Munshi women, Katsina Ala. Photograph.

    | Date: [between 1900 and 1999] | Reference: 646057i
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0003731: Cherokee scarification instrument

    | Date: 28 November 1933 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/30/99
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Archives and manuscripts

    M0003747: Cicatrization on the back, Latuka people

    | Date: December 1933 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/31/14
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0005583: Drawings of cicatrization designs, Torres Strait Islands

    | Date: August 1938 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/45/95
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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