scarification
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The tin’s raised pattern, weathered and abraded, yields the look of ancient African body scarification practiced as ritual ornamentation — here given an urban, Western edge.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2021
It is based on a 2020 sculpture, “I Am Speaking, Can You Hear Me?,” comprising two busts adorned all over with stylized scarification marks.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 7, 2021
They were dressed in Ethiopian uniforms, she said, but spoke with an Eritrean accent and had traditional facial scarification typical of the neighbouring country.
From Reuters ● Apr. 15, 2021
He tells me the scarification symbolises the purging of their mothers' blood and the gaining of their own adult blood - in a somewhat excruciating metaphorical severing of the apron strings.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2018
As these ceremonies also included the coming of age of the young crown prince, he was attended by the chief witch-doctors and made to undergo scarification and circumcision.
From Adventures in Swaziland The Story of a South African Boer by Owen Rowe O'Neil
