Human branding or stigmatizing is the process by which a mark, usually a symbol or ornamental pattern, is burned into the skin of a living person, with the intention of the resulting scar making it pe
Modern strike branding
Branding of a nude enslaved woman in Africa
Branding of the Huguenot John (or Jean) Leclerc during the 16th century persecutions
Whipping and branding of thieves in Denmark, 1728
Freeze branding is a technique involving a cryogenic coolant instead of heat to produce permanent marks on a variety of animals.
Human branding
…pattern, is burned into the skin of a living person, with the intention of the resulting scar making it permanent. This is performed using a hot or very cold branding iron. It therefore uses the physical techniques of livestock branding on a human, either with consent as a form of body modification; or under…
This mustang was captured by the Bureau of Land Management and freeze branded using the alpha-angle system (see § below). From left to right the brand says the horse is registered to the federal government, was born in the year 2000 and carries the registration number 012790, indicating that it was branded at a BLM facility in Oregon.
A Chincoteague pony on Assateague Island, Virginia with a control number freeze branded on its left hindquarter.
A wild mustang freeze branded by the Bureau of Land Management in 2004. In this photo the brand has just been applied and the horse's skin is still frozen in the depression left by the cryobrand. The brand says the horse is registered to the federal government, was born in 1997 and carries the registration number 599810, indicating that it was branded at a BLM facility in Nevada.
A freeze-branded mustang. The brand says this horse is registered to the Federal Government, was born in the year 2001 and carries the registration number 598563, indicating that the horse was branded at a BLM facility in Nevada.