10-Story Book, February 1928 — page 27: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This is an illustrated page from an early-20th-century pulp magazine featuring a photograph labeled "Aoba Dwarfs of the New Hebrides." The image shows four individuals, and the caption describes them as "charming girls, so modestly clothed," while noting specific body modifications—scarification welts on one person's arm created by cutting flesh and placing wood ash underneath the skin. The text characterizes these as "charming customs the ladies have over the world." The caption credits the material as "Special for the Tropical Number of 19 Story Book per International Newsreel, N.Y." This appears to be anthropological or travel-themed content typical of pulp magazines' sensationalized coverage of non-Western cultures.