Credits

Credits

Parts of this website have been developed with images from Flickr and Wikipedia. All images are used under the Creative Commons licence.

Image credits are listed below in order of theme: Piercing section, Tattooing section, Painting section, Shaping section and the Scarring section.

Piercing Section
 

Drawing of a man wearing a knife as an ear ornament

Nevers, on Wikipedia

Creative Common Licence

  Woman from Burma with large ear plugs

Thailand: Hill Tribes by Steve Evans, on Flickr

Creative Common Licence

  Ethiopian with large lip plug in bottom lip

Mago by MauritsV (Maurits & Marjol), on Flickr

Creative Commons Licence

  Woman from India with multiple piercings in her ears and nose

Kutia kondh woman 3 by PICQ, on Wikipedia

Creative Common Licence

  Traditional beaded ear ornament from Tanzania

Masai earring 01 by hamon jp, on Wikipedia

Creative Common Licence

           
Ear pierced with four rings

Similitud by monicasecas, on Flickr

Creative Common Licence

  Woman with ear lobe piercing

Untitled by Arno (Le Piment), on Flickr

Creative Commons Licence

  Facial piercings

Pierced by Aaron Dieppa, on Flickr

Creative Commons Licence

       
           

Tattooing Section
 

 Backs of two men tattooed in the Japanese style

The Tattooed Boys - A Pair of Runners from Old Japan by Okinawa Soba (image by USUI), on Flickr

Creative Commons Licence

  Tattooed face of a Maori chief

Tattooed Maori Chief by tattooblogger, on Flickr

Creative Common Licence

  A man with South East Asian tattoos on his chest and arms

Botnok tattoo-1 by tattooblogger, on Flickr

Creative Common Licence

  Backs of two men tattooed in the Japanese style

The Tattooed Men of Old Japan by Okinawa Soba (photograph by Baron von Stillfried), on Flickr

Creative Commons Licence

  A man with western tattoos on his chest and arms

German stowaway by New York Public Library (Photographer: Augustus F. Sherman), on Flickr

                 
A man with South East Asian tattoos on his chest and arms

Bontoc by Anthrash, on Wikipedia

  Samoan tattoos on the back of legs

Bits & Bytes by RunningToddler, on Flickr

Creative Commons Licence

  Samoan tattoos covering the lower half of the body

Traditional Samoan Tattoo - back by CloudSurfer, on Wikipedia

Creative Common Licence

  Western tattoo on the lower back of a lady

Tattoo-back by Dennis Mojado, on Wikipedia

Creative Common Licence

  Tattooist at work

Tattooist at work; Samoa, c.1895, by Thomas Andrew. From the National Library of New Zealand, Reference Number: PA1-o-546-32-1

                 
Man tattooing a mans arm

Simon-Robby-1 by Simon Oosterman, on Flickr

Creative Commons Licence

  A man tattooing a lady's back with traditional tattoos

Irezumi 1937 by Helen (Blue Ruin 1), on Flickr

  An illustration of a Marquesas man with body tattoos

Artist unknown: Ein Bewohner der Insel Nukahiva. Siebentes Kupfer. Frankfurt am Main, Friedrich Wilmans, 1812

  Illustration of a Maori Chief

MaoriChief1784, on Wikipedia

Parkinson, Sydney, 1745-1771. Parkinson was the artist on Captain Cook's 1st voyage to New Zealand in 1769. From: Parkinson, Sydney. A journal of a voyage to the South Seas. London, 1784, plate 16, opposite page 90. Alexander Turnbull Library, URL, Reference No.PUBL-0037-16

                 

Painting Section
 

An Indian child covered with Holi colours

Ramesh by Sukanto Debnath, on Flickr

Creative Common Licence

  Amazon Indian with half a painted face

Kayapos by Tatiana Reis, on Flickr

Creative Commons Licence

  A Native American with a white painted face

Native American PowWow 9488 by Dori, on Wikimedia

Creative Common Licence

  A dancer from Papua New Guinea with a painted face

IAN_0187 by Ian @ ThePaperboy.com, on Flickr

Creative Common Licence

  A performer at the Beijing Opera

Beijing Opera by Tom Thai(eviltomthai), on Flickr

Creative Common Licence

                 
A young girl from Ethiopia with dots painted on her face

Tribal views: Arbore people by Carsten ten Brink (10b travelling), on Flickr

Creative Commons Licence

  A man from South India with a blue painted face

Kathakali Dancer 3 by Steve Cox (Photoportunity), on Flickr

Creative Common Licence

           
                 

Shaping Section
 

Back of a male body builder

IMG_1458small by Roonb, on Flickr

Creative Common Licence

  Very slim young female model

Aum by Thailicious, on Flickr

Creative Commons Licence

  The model Twiggy in the 1960s

Twiggy by joanneteh_32, on Flickr

Creative Commons Licence

  A voluptuous statue of a female - Venus of Willendorf

Venus von Willendorf 01 by MatthiasKabel, on Wikipedia

Creative Common Licence

  Woman with neck rings

Karen Tribe by Jeremy Moran [Jezza], on Flickr

Creative Commons Licence

                 
Cosmetic Surgery neon sign

Cosmetic Surgery by Wout (eworm), on Flickr

Creative Commons Licence

               
                 

Scarring Section
 

Drawing of female facial scarring

1985 - Peda Scarification by Paul-W, on Flickr

Creative Commons Licence

  Scarring pattern on arm, shoulder and back

Mago Murzi tribe by MauritsV (Maurits & Marjol), on Flickr

Creative Commons Licence

  Scarring pattern on chest

Kadugli - West Nuba Mountains - South Kordofan by Rita Willaert, on Flickr

Creative Commons Licence

  Facial scarring on forehead and cheeks

Africa in the early 1940s by gbaku (John Atherton), on Flickr

Creative Commons Licence

  Profile view of facial scarring on cheek

Facial Scarification in Africa in the early 1940s by gbaku (John Atherton), on Flickr

Creative Commons Licence

                 

Facial scarring on cheek

Boy in Cove, Benin by hiro008 (Dietmar Temps), on Flickr

Creative Commons Licence

               
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