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Yoruba woman
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Henry John Drewel/National Museum of Arfican Art, Smithsonian Institution

 

This 1973 photograph by Henry John Drewal features a Yoruba woman with tattooed scars, Kolo, that combine designs into an overall pattern that mirrors the indigo cloths made and worn by Yoruba women, as seen in this image.

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