Scarification Collection

Madimba - Congo - Pipe-smoking lady
A rather powerful looking lady from the Congo, smoking a pipe and carrying a large wicker basket on her head. She is the wife of the Chief of the Mpongo Tribe of Kibweta, Madimba, Congo, Africa

Australian aborigines with body painting and scarification. Woman Worogan from Sydney area, man with body painting Y-Erran-Gou-La-Ga, and head of man with moustache

Zulu Maid showing traditional beadwork and scarification Date: circa 1920s

Natives of Tasmania (Van Diemens Land)
Natives of Tasmania, Van Diemens Land. Grou Agara, man with scarification on his chest and animal-skin cape, and Arra-Maida, woman with child on her back in kangaroo papoose

Tattooed or scarified guards at the door to the Queens Palace, Tandi, Angola. There are 500 guards, with three at the main door: two seated with clubs, and one standing with spear, bow and arrows

Old man from Central Sahara - Africa - Remarkable headdress
Old man from Central Sahara (Mali?) - Africa wearing a remarkable headdress cap adorned with sea shells. Date: circa 1904

East African Tribesman - Extensive Scarification, Nose Chain
A postcard produced by Consolata Missionaries, an Italian Roman Catholic missionary congregation operating in Africa. Dramatic scarification on the shoulders of this East African tribesman

Congo, Africa - Terrifying Warrior with bullet piercings
A Bougbou Tribesman from the region close to the start of the Kotto, a major tributary of the Ubangi right bank, so a sub-tributary of the Congo River - Congo, Central Africa - Terrifying (pre-punk)

Ornamental scars on face and sharpened and filed teeth
Photograph of a couple from upper Congo, Central Africa - bearing facial scarification and sharpened upper teeth and filed bottom teeth

Lubra, an Australian aborigine woman, 1850
Lubra, an Australian aborigine woman of Port Philip, pictured in 1850 with her hunting spear. She wears sheepskin here, with some tattooing or scarification visible on her chest. Date: 1850

Traditional facial scarification in Congo, Central Africa
Traditional facial scarification of a woman in the Congo, Central Africa. The text on the back of the card reads thus: " The old man and her have not fallen out - oh no

A Nubian Girl - Egypt Date: circa 1910s

Man from The Congo, Africa - Scarification
Portrait of a man from The Congo, Central Africa - bearing remarkable facial scarification in the form of cosses, dots, lines and zig-zags Date: circa 1920s

African men with sharpened teeth
Two native black African men from the Mankaignes Tribe of Senegal smile to show off their sharpened teeth, filed down to points

Girl from Gabon, Africa
Striking young woman from Gabon, Africa. She displayes traditional body scarification on the upper section of her right arm, close to the shoulder

Dinka Man - Sudan, Africa
A fine portrait photograph of a man of the Dinka Tribe, Sudan, showing ritual scarification on the chest, headdress, neck beads and wound torc

Burkina Faso (Upper Volta) Toucouleurs (Fula) Woman
A Fula (Toucouleurs) Woman from Bukina Faso (Upper Volta), a landlocked country in West Africa. Date: circa 1920s

Egyptian woman with scarification, circa 1890, Egypt. Date: circa 1890

Children from Sierra Leone
Two young children from Sierra Leone, West Africa Date: circa 1910s

Bamum Woman - Cameroon - Extensive back scarification
A Bamum Woman and child from Cameroon, Central Africa, showing dramatic and extensive back scarification in regular patterns. Date: circa early 1930s

Two Nubian men - Egypt
A very fine photographic postcard depicting two Nubian men - Egypt

Gabon - Africa - Woman with Scarification
A Woman from Sibiti, Gabon - part of the Bakota (or Kota) - a Bantu ethnic group from the northeastern region of the country

Ivory Coast - Scarification
Scarification on a womans belly in the form of a large spider. The woman is from the Bobo Tribe in Ivory Coast

Tribesman of the Jarawa Tribe
Facial Scarification evident on a tribesman from the Jarawa Tribe. The Jarawa are one of the adivasi indigenous peoples of the Andaman Islands. There are only 250-350 members of this tribe alive today

Chad - Goulfa Woman from the Lake Chad region. Date: circa 1930s

Extinct Palawa or Palervar aborigines, Tasmania, Australia.. Handcolored lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsches Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures, Meissen, circa 1835-1840

Aborigines with bodypainting, Borogegal man of Port Jackson.. Handcolored lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsches Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures, Meissen, circa 1835-1840

Australian aborigine warrior with body scarification.. Handcolored lithograph from Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsches Complete Gallery of Peoples in True Pictures, Meissen, circa 1835-1840

Senegalese Sharpshooter - WWI era. Date: circa 1916

A Dinka Man - Sudan, Upper Nile Date: circa 1910s

Sudanese soldier with remarkable hat
Sudanese soldier - with scarification on his cheeks and wearing a quite extraordinary hat. Date: 1910s

Senegalese Man
Fine photograph of a young Senegalese Man from the Makaigne tribe, displaying fine scarification across his whole upper torso, wearing a woven hat and carrying what appears to be a sling

Sudanese woman with decorative cuts
Sudanese woman with traditional decorative cuts on her face, braided hair (with buttons and beads) and long beaded necklace

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