Stock Photo - Artificial deformation. A woman of the Sara tribe, Chad, Central Africa, with artificial deformation of the lips as a sign of beauty. The effect is produced by piercing the lips and gradually enlarging the holes by inserting wooden discs, the size of which is increased as the lips become distended. After a 19th century photograph. From Customs of The World, published c. 1913.

Stock Photo: Artificial deformation. A woman of the Sara tribe, Chad, Central Africa, with artificial deformation of the lips as a sign of beauty.

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