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Corsetry - Shaping the waist
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/body-art/corsetry-shaping-the-waist/The shaping of the waist, through belting, corseting, girdling or hiding its natural curve, has long held universal interest. What is considered an acceptable shape for the torso is intimately tied up with cultural aesthetics, discipline and social status.
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Henna
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/body-art/henna/Henna is a dye made from a flowering plant, Lawsonia inermis, to dye skin, hair and fingernails. It has been used for thousands of years across many cultures as an important part of ceremonys and rituals.
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Tattooing - Earliest examples
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/body-art/tattooing-earliest-examples/Tattooed markings on skin and incised markings in clay provide some of the earliest evidence that humans have long practised a wide range of body art.
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Paint up - Aboriginal Dance
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/body-art/paint-up-aboriginal-dance/Many Aboriginal communities have been painting their bodies for thousands of years. For these communities, body painting is not necessarily just about visual artistic creativity, it relates to conventions, laws and religion.
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Cosmetic surgery
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/body-art/cosmetic-surgery/Cosmetic surgery is a type of plastic surgery which changes the normal physical features people are born with. Plastic surgery also includes medical reconstructive surgery which repairs physical damage to the body or genetic abnormalities.
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Contemporary branding and cutting
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/body-art/contemporary-branding-and-cutting/The process of scarification involves an endurance of pain. This endurance often signifies a rite of passage and is a ritual which is itself highly significant.
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Body disposal - legal procedures
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/death-the-last-taboo/body-disposal-legal-procedures/Certain procedures must be carried out in order to dispose of a human body, including arranging for a funeral, certifying that a person is dead and what the cause of death was, as well as registering the death.
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Sir Douglas Mawson OBE
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/trailblazers/sir-douglas-mawson-obe/One of Australia’s greatest Antarctic explorers.
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Matthew Flinders
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/trailblazers/matthew-flinders/An outstanding sailor, surveyor, navigator and scientist.
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Ron and Valerie Taylor
https://australian.museum/about/history/exhibitions/trailblazers/ron-and-valerie-taylor/Pioneers of skindiving, underwater photography and cinematography.
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