Mura man with lip piercings and facial tattoos. Man of the Mura peoples who live in the Amazonas, Brazil. Mura indian of South America. Copied from Paul Marcoy's Journey across South America. Woodcut from Robert Brown’s The Races of Mankind, Cassell, Petter and Galpin, London, 1873.

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