Body piercing
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Body piercing is a form of body modification involving the puncturing or cutting a part of the body to create an opening through which jewelry or implants can be worn or inserted. The word piercing ca
Nipple piercings, vertical labret piercing and stretched ears
An earring found in an Alamannic grave in Germany, dated c. 6th or 7th century
A traditional Burmese ear-boring ceremony
A Karen woman from Burma with traditional ear plugs
Nose piercing
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Nose piercing is the piercing of the skin or cartilage which forms any part of the nose, normally for the purpose of wearing jewelry, called a nose-jewel. Among the different varieties of nose piercin
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…skin profile and appearance (e.g. golden threads installed subdermal, platinum, titanium or medical grade steel subdermal implants). Ear piercing and nose piercing have been particularly widespread and are well represented in historical records and among grave goods. The oldest mummified remains ever discovered…
Alaska woman wearing nose ring and labret piercing, Nunivak Island, 1929
Carthaginian female figure with gold nose piercing, 400–201 BCE
Nose ornament from the Moche culture, c. 100–300 CE
Drawing of an Egyptian woman wearing an engraved nose ring, as drawn by Edward Lane in his book An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians