Scarred Collection

In the Famous Plug Street Wood by Matania
A relief party marching back to the trenches through Ploegstreet Wood (known as Plug Street), south of Ypres. The scarred trees lining the soldiers route bear the scars of shelling

Richard Burton / Leighton2
SIR RICHARD FRANCIS BURTON Traveller and writer

Shilluk Girl bearing extensive traditional scarfication
A Shilluk Girl bearing extensive traditional facial scarfication and wearing thick wood-block earrings - Upper Nile, Sudan, Africa. Date: circa 1910s

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

Mensur (fencing bout) - Heidelberg, Germany
A brief interuption during a Mensur (Academic fencing bout) - the duellist hopes he will be scarred for life - Heidelberg, Germany. Date: circa 1910s

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

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

Henry of Lorraine, Duke of Guise (1550-1588).. Nicknamed le Balafre (the scarred) from a wound he received at the battle of Dormans. Handcolored illustration by E

WW1 cartoon - the water logged Western Front
Illustration originally reproduced in the trench newspaper, The Gasper, featuring soldiers wading waist deep through a water-logged landscape on the Western Front

Trenches at Nieuport, Belgium
WWI trench system at the small Belgian port of Nieuport, on the Yser, photographed shortly after the conclusion of the war. Date: circa 1920

Syrian Tribal Girl
A very striking Syrian Tribal Girl in traditional costume. Date: circa 1930s

After Students Duel 3
Medical inspection after a Mensur (fencing bout) - the duellist hopes he will be scarred for life Date: circa 1905

Timber roads on the battlefields near Verdun
Two French soldiers making their way along the log-tracks crossing the scarred landscape left by German shelling near Verdun

STUDENTS DUEL C1905
The Mensur (fencing bout) - both duellists hope they will be scarred for life

Hunter and Buffalo
Eyeball to eyeball with a buffalo - Adulphe Delegorgue, travelling in South Africa, has a close encounter with a buffalo but lives (somewhat scarred) to write his memoirs

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