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India: a woman of the Garo tribe wearing heavy earrings which have greatly distended her ear-lobes. Process print, 190-.
Date: [between 1900 and 1909?]Reference: 645669i
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East Africa: a Masai woman wearing heavy armlets, ear-lobe distenders, necklets etc. Process print, 190-.
Date: [between 1900 and 1909?]Reference: 645668i
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Rubiana lagoon, Kimbo (?), Solomon Islands: a man with his ears distended by large earrings. Photograph.
Date: [between 1900 and 1999?]Reference: 645444i
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A child with plugs in holes in his earlobes - to gradually increase the size, for ornamental purposes. Halftone after a photograph by J.W. Beattie.
Beattie, J. W.Reference: 21392i
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A girl is held by her mother as another woman pierces her ear for an earring. Engraving after D. Wilkie, 1835.
Wilkie, David, Sir, 1785-1841.Date: 1830-1839Reference: 35565i