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NOSE PLUGS:
The nose plug is a practice that has been in existence for a very long time in fact a practice till date by most women but however it is most predominantly heavily practice by the people of apatani women in india.
Apatani is a very small settlement in india with a total number of 60000 inhabitant this people are well known for their renowned efficient agricultural practice where they do not use animals neither machinery to till the ground.
The apatani women hold a popular believe that they are the most beautiful and most attractive women in the world and for that reason are always been invaded by men of the neighboring villages so therefore a wooden nose plug is warn n their nose as a way of protection by making them look very less attractive to men of the neighboring villages and also tattooing their faces with a long horizontal line usually way down the face and 5 lines on the chicks.
Although the tribe of apatani seem to have no written history as everything is usually been passed down orally from generations to generations.
This particular practice of wearing a nose plug is seem to be fading out that the only existing once wearing the nose plug are the older women in fact in time pass all women in this tribe were made to wear this but girls born after the 1970s have really not been practicing the tradition as often as the early women.
SCARIFICATION:
This is little tricky and a tough one to write reason that scarification is been done all over the world today though it is been particularly heavily practiced by the people of sepik river tribes in papua new guinea, the karo tribe in southern Ethiopia, and all throughout sudan these practices can be said to be the modern tattoo.
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scarification is the practice of incising the skin with sharp instrument such as a knife, glass, stone or coconut shell in such way as to control the shape of the scar tissue on various parts of the body.
To this people scarification is regarded as beauty enhancement, a rite of passage or marks of social status and identity i.es woman or man would have scarification marks that will distinguish her/him form anyone else, tells her society ranks, family, clan, and tribe to them this was a mark of pride and not shame.
During this process the elders of the tribe cut the young men all over the bodies including their faces using any sharp object in a pattern that resembles that of an alligators as they are of the believe that alligators will consume any face of boyhood left in their bodies and thus turn them into men.
TEETH SHARPENING:
This is one of the bizarre traditional body modifications I really find amazing
Teeth sharpening are a process of manually sharpening the teeth using a chisel or knife to fill them to desirable sharps this is usually done on the front teeth i.es the incisor.
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Though many cultures have practiced body modifications but particularly the Bali people file down their teeth because it was thought that the teeth represents anger, jealousy and other similar negative emotions including rite of passage into adolescents.
Other tribes that practice this bizarre culture include mentawai women from Indonesia.
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