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Cultural Clue
A coiled snake is etched onto a person's body through a process called scarification. Evidence for scarification among indigenous Australians is primarily via (19th century) anthropologist A.C. Haddon who took black and white photographs of some designs, as well as drawing others into his notebooks in the late 1800's. |
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