Some people around the world practice body modifications that will put punks to shame. Even though many of these rituals seem extremely painful to us, they carry a strong meaning in some countries. here are a few of such body modifications practiced in most part of Africa and beyond, Enjoy.

1. Facial scarification

Men of the Dinka tribe in South Sudan scar their faces with three lines across the forehead. It is a sign of courage. This practice marks the transition to manhood.

2. Body scarification

Sepik River tribes in Papua, New Guinea practice scarification as part of an initiation ceremony for men. The elders use razor blades to cut the young men in a pattern that looks like the rough skin of an alligator.

3. Wooden Plugs

The Apatani tribe resides in the Ziro valley in Arunachal Pradesh, India. Apatani women were amongst the most beautiful. They were so beautiful that they made themselves look unattractive as protection from invaders from other tribes. Apatani women consequently started wearing large wooden plugs in their noses.

4. Lip Elongation

The Mursi is a nomadic tribe living in the border between Ethiopia and Sudan. Mursi women are famous for wearing large plates in their lower lips. This practice is a sign of endurance and maturity, and it is therefore admired within the community.

mikron:
3. Wooden Plugs
The Apatani tribe resides in the Ziro valley in Arunachal Pradesh, India. Apatani women were amongst the most beautiful. They were so beautiful that they made themselves look unattractive as protection from invaders from other tribes. Apatani women consequently started wearing large wooden plugs in their noses.

They must be deluded. Even this woman claim beauty

@number 3

So flat nose makes us ugly abi?

Another subtle message to black people from white researchers.

damn!!!!!


am like eeeeewwwwww :-/

5. “Wodden Ears”

The Rikbaktsa live in the Amazon rain forest of Brazil. In this community, the men wear wooden disks in their elongated earlobes. They have their ears pierced during a ritual celebration at the age of 14. This rite marks a young man’s transition into adulthood and eligibility for marriage.

6. “Long necks”

The Kayan live in Myanmar. Most Kayan women wear brass coils around their necks. The brass coils are placed around young girls’ necks when they reach five years old. As time passes, each coil is replaced with a longer one.

7. Teeth Sharpening

Teeth sharpening is a form of body modification that some South Asian women have undergone. It is practiced by the Bagobo women of Mindanao in the Philippines.

8. Gum Tattooing

Fulani women tattoo their lower lip and gum with a pigment of charcoal mixed with shea butter. This event marks puberty.

9. Amputation

In Dani, New Papua, finger amputation is a form of mourning. Tribesmen cut off their fingers in order to display their grief at funerals. Fingers are cut by close family members such as the mother, the father, or siblings.
http://www.afrizap.com/en/9-extreme-body-modifications-you-can-blame-on-culture/10/

Ilekeh:
@number 3

So flat nose makes us ugly abi?

Another subtle message to black people from white researchers.

platyrhine, i guess that's what it is called.

Deluded folks.

This is scary!

All weird

God for purnish my parents now if they ever did that rubbish on me. What kind of nonsense is this? People teaching God how to create abi. Ndi ara

Why will one subject self to pains and deformation(body modification as the Op said) all in the name of whatever

The finger amputation is so stupid. How could people suddenly render themselves disabled? Do they enjoy pity and begging?

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Euuuuuu... That number 9 looks like kuturu.

IdiAmin1:
God for purnish my parents now if they ever did that rubbish on me. What kind of nonsense is this? People teaching God how to create abi. Ndi ara

If u lived in such society you will be mad at your mom for not doing it to you.

dovelike:
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How was the wedding?

mikron:
2. Body scarification

Sepik River tribes in Papua, New Guinea practice scarification as part of an initiation ceremony for men. The elders use razor blades to cut the young men in a pattern that looks like the rough skin of an alligator.

This looks badazz

Unbelievable!. Things people do for the sake of their cultural belief

Irritating

JiggamanGh:


How was the wedding?

Fantastic. I danced and had fun

Very extreme modifications, I must say.

Imagine how cute that guy in no 2 would have appeared until he pulls his shirt.
Also the woman with wooden plugs in no 3, very pretty
What about the Lip elongation and Wooden Ears.
Crazy stuffs!

www.nairaland.com/attachments/2348060_mursi_jpege4c3db7802ed7a58d20c685dbcf9de2a Some people just like suffer

Attimes I look around the world and I wanna thank my earliest folks for paying huge price for civilisation. Imagine my earlobe being elongated just to place one useless plate inside of it and my wife lower lips being elongated just to place useless plate in it..... Taaa Tufiakwa. The worst thing in life is ignorance/uncivilised and not knowing one is uncivilised.

Imagine someone will cut off his fingers because u wanna mourn ..... I even understand the sharpened teeth, maybe they use their teeth in place of lack of knife .... bloody vampires. .... This shows human were animals at some point ...... evolution, exposure,innovation, civilisation and now technology is the real deal.

JiggamanGh:


If u lived in such society you will be mad at your mom for not doing it to you.

ahahaaha na so ..... I for sue my parents now sha had it been I find any tribal mark for my cheeks ..... they must explain why dem go tear me mark without my consent.

thank you Lord I did not fall into this type of societies.