One lip-plug
One lip-plug, toadstool shaped, oval in section
- Measurements:
-
height 23 mm
length 24 mm
width 36 mm
- Object Number:
- A58730 Pt1
- type:
- lip-plugs
- Image ©
- The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Two bone lip or nose plugs, one is toadstool shape
- Made:
- 1880-1925
Two bone lip or nose plugs, one is toadstool-shaped, the other has a zig-zagged concertina-like body from the Seattle Consignment, African, 1880-1925
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A58730
- Materials:
- bone
- type:
- lip-plugs
Parts
One lip-plug, concertina shaped
One lip-plug, zig-zagged body, concertina-shaped
- Measurements:
-
height 28 mm
length 24 mm
width 36 mm
- Object Number:
- A58730 Pt2
- type:
- lip-plugs
- Image ©
- The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
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