Labret
- Museum number:
- 2-15613
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21020015613
- Accession number:
- Acc.708
- Description:
- Labret plug, made of ivory, nail shaped, pierced at base.
- Donor:
- W. Barclay Stephens
- Collection place:
- Alaska
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Alaska
- Culture or time period:
- Alaskan Eskimo
- Collector:
- Carleton H. Clark
- Collection date:
- 1900
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Labrets (jewelry worn on the head)
- Accession date:
- 1936
- Context of use:
- Part of a series used by Eskimo men to complete the process of enlarging the labret holes.
- Department:
- Native US and Canada (except California)
- Dimensions:
- length 3.2 centimeters
- Legacy documentation:
-