Labret
date: label: Accession Date
content: 30 Jan 1868
name: label: Donor Name
content: Roderick R. MacFarlane
notes: label: Notes
content: FROM CARD: "ILLUS., HNDBK. N. AMER. IND., VOL. 5, ARCTIC, PG. 355, FIG. 9. LABRET OF IVORY MOUTH PIECE WITH 2 BLUE BEADS ATTACHED WITH WOODEN DOWELS."
label: Notes
content: Source of the information below: Inuvialuit Pitqusiit Inuuniarutait: Inuvialuit Living History, The MacFarlane Collection website, by the Inuvialuit Cultural Resource Centre (ICRC), Inuvik, N.W.T., Canada (website credits here http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/posts/12 ), entry on this artifact http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/items/279 , retrieved 1-24-2020: Labret made of ivory with two glass beads attached by means of wood dowels inserted into holes drilled into the body of the labret and the beads. A third hole in the labret may have been intended to hold a similar bead and dowel. More information here: http://www.inuvialuitlivinghistory.ca/item_types/35: Inuvialuit males wore stud-shaped ornaments in incisions under each corner of the mouth. Labrets were often decorated by attaching half of a bead to the outer surface.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 21 Apr 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Northwest Territories, Canada, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Eskimo, Inuit, Inuvialuk (Inuvialuit)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 68A00010
label: USNM Number
content: E5817-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Labret
physicalDescription: label: Width - Object
content: 2.8 cm