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Wellcome museum: primitive medicine, body deformation
Wellcome Collection

Wellcome museum: primitive medicine, body deformation

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Wellcome Collection

Gallery of primitive medicine, 1946. Section showing artificial deformation and modification of the body. I. Head and skin. Painting, tatooing and scarification.

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