In pics: Most shockingly cultural body modifications
By: Team Ifairer | Posted: 06-03-2017
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Left, a member of the Bagobo people from coastal Mindanao in the Philippines displays filed teeth in a photo taken circa 1910 and right, a women in 2008 from a Baka tribe of pygmies in the Dzanga-Sangha Forest Reserve, Central African Republic. Human tooth sharpening has been practiced by many cultures throughout history - sometimes for spiritual or class reasons, and in other cases to imitate animals.