The Rikbaktsa tribe are known for stretching their ears and placing ornaments through the nose. Each piercing signifys an animal or human that they have killed. With each new piercing, the person will get a new name, therefore at the end of the piercing stage they will have multiple names which show their hierarchy within the society they live in. The style is full of vibrant colours which detracts from the thought that there could be any pain involved with the scarification and modernisation they carry out onto their bodies, unlike the tribal images of the procedures carried out in Africa. The tribe are found in Brazil, therefore the colorful feathers would be easily accessible to them because of the wildlife found in the jungles.
The piercings that they carry out are very much similar to the piercings carried out here in England. For years people have had their ears stretched, maybe not to the same extent as the Rikbaktsa people, but pretty similar. The new trend at the moment is to get the middle of the nose pierced, the septum. This just shows that there are similarity's between many different cultures all in the name of beauty.
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