- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Ivory labret with blue glass bead attached. [El.B DDF Body Arts Project 2010/2011 15/10/2010]
- Geographical reference
- Western Arctic
- Date / Period
- Date made: Before 1954
- Date collected
- By 1954
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1954
- Materials and processes
- Material Animal Ivory Tooth, Material Bead, Process Carved
- Dimensions
- Length 22 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1954.9.145
- Research and responses
The Blackmore Museum was formed by William Blackmore (1827-1878), mainly through his own visits to the USA between 1863 and 1878. I have therefore added William Blackmore as possibly the field collector for this record.
See Taylor, C. 1987. William Blackmore: a 19th-century Englishman’s contribution to American Indian ethnology. In C.F. Feest (eds) Indians and Europe: an interdisciplinary collection of essays. Aachen: Rader Verlag, pp. 321-336. [Dan Hicks 28/08/2012]
Search terms: Ornament, Lip Ornament
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