A regularly reproduced image, now regarded as that of a female East African slave. Married women of the Babuckur would pierce the edges of their ears and around their lips, insetting short sections of dried grass.
Female East African Slave
Images of African Slavery and the Slave Trade
From Alistair Boddy-Evans, About.com
Source: "Africa and its Explorations as told by its Explorers" by Mungo Park et al., London 1907.
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