Cutting designs into the skin as a form of body modification
This article is about the body modification method. For the process used to encourage germination in plants, see Scarification (botany). For the route of administration, see intradermal injection. For the technique for preparing the soil for seedbeds in forestry, see silviculture. For the Gotham episode, see Scarification (Gotham). For the 19th century bloodletting technique, see Bloodletting.
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Detailed facial scarification
Scarification involves scratching, etching, burning/branding, or superficially cutting designs, pictures, or words into the skin as a permanent body modification or body art. The body modification can take roughly 6–12 months to heal. In the process of body scarification, scars are purposely formed by cutting or branding the skin by various methods (sometimes using further sequential aggravating wound-healing methods at timed intervals, like irritation). Scarification is sometimes called cicatrization (from the French equivalent).[1]
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intervals, like irritation). Scarification is sometimes called cicatrization (from the French equivalent). Scarification has been traditionally practiced...
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practices, with the belief that cupping with scarification may eliminate scar tissue, and cupping without scarification would cleanse the body through the organs...
tattoos on his face after being acclimated to native life in Mexico. Scarification refers to the permanent and intentional marking of the skin causing...
themselves to removal of lower front teeth. The girls, in addition got scarifications: around the belly area, the flank, the back, and the face (on the temple)...
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punctured, although generally only in the temples. In scarification (not to be confused with scarification, a method of body modification), the "superficial"...
the eze to speak directly to all the communities under him. Ritual scarification in Nri was known as Ichi of which there are two styles; the Nri style...
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primitive movement, having exposed himself to body piercing, tightlacing, scarification, tattooing and suspension Orlan, (born 1947) French performance artist...
and rely on their community standards. They are most known for their scarification and elaborate plank masks. In the 18th century, Bwa lands were occupied...
ABC-CLIO. pp. 53–54. ISBN 978-1-61069-076-8. Trojanowska, Alicja (1992), Scarification among the Somba people from Atakora mountains, Smithsonian Institution...
Pieter le Fras Nortier, ascertained that seeds require a process of scarification before they are planted in acidic, sandy soil. By the late 1920s, growing...
behaviorally modern, body adornments such as jewelry, tattoos, body paint and scarification became part of non-verbal communications, indicating a person's social...
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