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FIGS. 2a–f (above): Men and a woman wearing nose ornaments. The
silhouette of a man’s face shows how large the septum piercing is.
Second image from Kevin Bubriski, Michael Rockefeller New Guinea Photographs, 1961, 2007. Last
image from Zegwaard (1959). Sources for other images unknown.
The man in the top left image wears a human vertebra (atlas) on a string around his neck. The atlas is the
topmost vertebra beneath the head and is a typical headhunter’s trophy ornament.
NOSE ORNAMENTS OF THE ASMAT