Labret
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 Jun 1887
name: label: Collector
content: Lucien M. Turner
label: Donor Name
content: Smithsonian Institution
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Blue glass. Ivory stud." This object is on loan to the Anchorage Museum at Rasmuson Center, from 2010 through 2027.
label: Notes
content: Source of the information below: Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center Alaska Native Collections: Sharing Knowledge website, by Aron Crowell, entry on this artifact https://alaska.si.edu/record.asp?id=643 , retrieved 12-27-2021; see web page for additional information: Labret, Inupiaq. Men and women traditionally wore bone or ivory labrets through piercings in their lower lips; this one for a man is decorated with half of a large blue trade bead. The flared back of the labret was worn inside the lip and rested against the lower teeth.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 8 Feb 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: St. Michael, Norton Sound, Alaska, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Inupiaq
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 019248
label: USNM Number
content: E129259-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Labret
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: 3.5 cm