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1954.9.148

Ivory labret - possibly a distender for the lip-hole. [JP 1/9/2001]

1954.9.148

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Collection type
Object
Description
Ivory labret - possibly a distender for the lip-hole. [JP 1/9/2001]
Cultural groups
Inuit (Greenland)
Inuit
Person
Field collector William Henry Blackmore
PRM source Irene Marguerite Beasley
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1954
Date collected
By 1954
Acquisition information
Donated: 1954
Materials and processes
Material Animal Ivory Tooth, Process Carved
Dimensions
Length 20 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1954.9.148
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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