 Metal Lip Plug - sold
Tribe: Toposa
Country: Sudan
Material: Aluminum
Size: 1.75" tall x 2" wide (3.5" tall on custom display stand)
Lips,
noses and ears are pierced during childhood so that they can later wear
ornaments to enhance their features, to show tribal identity, and to
protect them from dangers such as evil exhaltations and supernatural
forces believed to enter through these orifices. Initially the holes
are made by the child's mother with a thorn; later they are enlarged
with whisps of corn or millet stalk until they are up to 2cm in
diameter, large enough to insert a plug of clay, wood, stone or metal.
~ Africa Adorned - Angela Fisher ISBN:1 860460291
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