Illustration of an Aboriginal Australian tooth knocking-out ceremony. This was a right of passage where the right incisor was knocked out. From 'Encyc

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Illustration of an Aboriginal Australian tooth knocking-out ceremony. This was a right of passage where the right incisor was knocked out. From 'Encyclopaedia of Natural History' by Jean-Charles Chenu (1861).

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