Body modification
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Body modification is the deliberate altering of the human anatomy or human physical appearance. In its broadest definition it includes skin tattooing, socially acceptable decoration, and religious rit
Scarification in progress
Early stages of getting a navel piercing
Scarification
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Scarification involves scratching, etching, burning/branding, or superficially cutting designs, pictures, or words into the skin as a permanent body modification or body art. The body modification can
Body modification
…Tattooing – injection of a pigment under the skin Scarification – cutting or removal of dermis with the intent to encourage intentional scarring or keloiding Branding – controlled burning or cauterizing of tissue…
Detailed facial scarification
Aeta man from the island of Luzon with a scarified form of indigenous Philippine tattoo, c. 1890s
Aboriginal Australian with scarification of the back, 1911
Tribal crocodile scarification done near the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea