Old African scarification knives from Congo - Ethnographic Arms & Armour

20th September 2021, 11:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Battara

I have seen scarification up close on Nigerian fellow students (a sign of not ever being a slave nor their family).

Interesting to see the tools used. Must be crazy painful though.

"a sign of not ever being a slave" even more; it showed their "belonging" such as tribe, position and membership to a (secret) society

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