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Nose Piercing Collection

Background imageNose Piercing Collection: Two Hindu Women in Elaborate Jewelry, Before Studio Backdrop with Palm Trees, 1860s-70s

Two Hindu Women in Elaborate Jewelry, Before Studio Backdrop with Palm Trees, 1860s-70s

Background imageNose Piercing Collection: Wishram female type (front), 1910, c1915. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Wishram female type (front), 1910, c1915. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Wishram female type (front), 1910, c1915. Head-and-shoulders portrait of Tlakluit Indian woman, with bone in nose, facing front, Washington state

Background imageNose Piercing Collection: Kenowun-Nunivak, c1929. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis

Kenowun-Nunivak, c1929. Creator: Edward Sheriff Curtis
Kenowun-Nunivak, c1929. Kenowun, Nunivak woman, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front, wearing a fur parka, necklaces, earrings, nose ornament and beaded labrets below her lower lip

Background imageNose Piercing Collection: Seated Figure Playing a Rasp, c. A. D. 100. Creator: Unknown

Seated Figure Playing a Rasp, c. A. D. 100. Creator: Unknown
Seated Figure Playing a Rasp, c. A.D. 100

Background imageNose Piercing Collection: Seated Joined Couple, 200 B. C. / A. D. 300. Creator: Unknown

Seated Joined Couple, 200 B. C. / A. D. 300. Creator: Unknown
Seated Joined Couple, 200 B.C./A.D. 300

Background imageNose Piercing Collection: Cashivo Woman, ca. 1890-1892. Creator: Unknown

Cashivo Woman, ca. 1890-1892. Creator: Unknown
Cashivo Woman, ca. 1890-1892

Background imageNose Piercing Collection: A Native Bride, c1920s. Creator: Mortimer L Menpes

A Native Bride, c1920s. Creator: Mortimer L Menpes
A Native Bride, c1920s. Indian woman with nose jewellery. From " India" by Flora A. Steel. [A. & C. Black, Ltd, London, c1920s]

Background imageNose Piercing Collection: A Native Bride, 1905. Artist: Mortimer Luddington Menpes

A Native Bride, 1905. Artist: Mortimer Luddington Menpes
A Native Bride, 1905. From India, by Mortimer Menpes. Text by Flora A. Steel. [Adam & Charles Black, London, 1905]

Background imageNose Piercing Collection: Medicine man, Australia, 1922. Artist: Spencer and Gillen

Medicine man, Australia, 1922. Artist: Spencer and Gillen
Medicine man, Australia, 1922. From Peoples of All Nations, Their Life Today and the Story of Their Past, volume I: Abyssinia to the British Empire

Background imageNose Piercing Collection: Malformation of the ears, Solomon Islands, 1920. Artist: JW Beattie

Malformation of the ears, Solomon Islands, 1920. Artist: JW Beattie
Malformation of the ears, Solomon Islands, 1920. A man with pierced ear lobes enlarged by discs and a nose ring. A print from Customs of the World, Hutchinson and Company, 1920


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