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

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