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
Later he told me the next mass scarification of the village's young men into the cult of the crocodile would take place this November.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2018
The bdellometer consisted of a glass bell with two protruding tubes, one perpendicular for performing scarification, and the other oblique, for attaching the aspirating pump.
From Bloodletting Instruments in the National Museum of History and Technology by Appel, Toby
