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Description: "Scarification pattern among the Great Andamanese in the late 19th century. Nothing is known of the origins or antiquity of this custom among the Andamanese." Citation from Clothes, Clay and Beautycare (of Great Andamanese people), by George Weber.
Title: Great Andamanese scarification pattern 2 - 1901
Credit: Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford - reproduced on http://www.andaman.org/BOOK/chapter13/text13.htm
Author: Edward Horace Man (1846-1929)
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License: Public domain
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