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Peruvian elongated skulls, trephined male (left) and intact female (right), c. 1000 bc. Ethiopia: Mursi Bantu tribesman with greatly distended earlobes, Kenya. Tattooed designs dating to c. 300–400 bc, found on the male burial in Kurgan II at Pazyryk, including detail from the right shoulder and right arm; in the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg. Padaung
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Also Known As ritual deformation

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Peruvian elongated skulls, trephined male (left) and intact female (right), c. 1000 bc.
Ethiopia: Mursi
Bantu tribesman with greatly distended earlobes, Kenya.
Tattooed designs dating to c. 300–400 bc, found on the male burial in Kurgan II at Pazyryk, including detail from the right shoulder and right arm; in the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.
Padaung
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