O-Kee-Pa/Sundance/Native American Body Suspension

[ZmajSnoshaj]

In case some people may have wondered what the bone hooks and wooden pegs/awls were sometimes used for.

[AndrewSchwinn]

Negative
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[greywolf22]

These pictures may be disconcerting to some  but they are part of a religious process stil practiced by some Indian Tribes, to them it is part of an initiation into manhood, its about knowing pain and getting past the pain, its a transition into manhood. Its not for everyone but to some its part of who they are.
Jack

[gregszybala]

A Man Called Horse, good depiction.

[Hoss]

Quite a tradition of the tribes of the great plains, the Sun Dance.