Masai warriors puncture and stretch their ear lobes to make all-flesh ear-rings, and Masai brides knock out some of their frontteeth to add to their allure.
Simultaneously touching the mouthpiece of the pipe with one's frontteeth and applying one's throat produces a unique timbre comprising a clear and gentle whistling sound and a drone.
The man stood up and imitated a firing squad with his two chimpanzee arms, ticking off a volley of bullets and displaying, as he did so, sharp but not entirely white frontteeth.
First comes Giovanni Punto, an 18th-century Bohemian who became the subject of an aristocratic fatwa requiring the removal of his frontteeth when he had the temerity to leave his boss Count Joseph von Thun's employment without permission.