Drawing lines to Perfectness - a photo on Flickriver

            In Benin, scars on the face –more specifically in the apples of the cheek – represent heritage, ethnicity, beauty or clan ties. Etched into the skin during infancy, these artificial dimples come in a variety of hash mark patterns depending on where you are from. If your mother is from one tribe and your father from another, they both have to create the pattern of their own origin on each one cheek. Your mum right and your father the left site. Its a kind of passport you carry day in and out. (please enlarge)

Benin 2013

Taken on: March 19, 2014

Sets appears in: • Sahel Trip 2013

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