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At the peak of the Datak Chachar festival, the procession of penitents, skin punctured with fishhooks, passes through Malacca.

Author: Michael Yamashita

©Michael Yamashita. No usage authorized without prior written permission.

Photo size: 33.8 Mpixels (96.8 MB uncompressed) - 7140x4740 pixels (23.8x15.8 in / 60.5x40.1 cm at 300 ppi)

Photo keywords: Zheng He book, page 318, pag 319, Malacca, fishhooks, penitents, Datak Chachar festival, Hindu Festival

The wounds inflicted by the spikes and hooks do not bleed, and participants claim not to feel pain while in their trancelike ...

At the peak of the Datak Chachar festival, the procession of penitents, skin punctured with fishhooks, passes through Malacca.

In the most extreme form of body piercing, a Malaccan kavadi bearer wears this cage of spikes and fishhooks as reparation for...