lip ornament

Decorative tassel for lip plug from the Wai Wai people of Yakka-Yakka, Guyana. Used with wooden plug for inserting in a hole in the centre of the male lower lip. The tassel is composed by four tufts of pink, white, red and blue beads. It has long cotton strings with a small piece of wooden split tied to it.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
1969.117
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall: 8.0709 x 5.1181 x 1.5748 in.; 205 x 130 x 40 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
beads; feathers; vegetable fibre; seeds
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
LOCATION
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