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The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.

Ida B. Wells
Cutting, Lynching, Ears
"Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought". Book by everly Guy-Sheftall, p. 73, 1995.
The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.