She is wearing a
labret (lip ornament), indicating high rank.
As MacDonald explains it, the third in the sequence, dogfish, "signifying a woman with a
labret, in memory of a woman who was carried off by a dogfish and became one of them." The point at which the dorsal fin of the dogfish emerges from the pole is marked by a human face, and the tail of the dogfish is held in the beak of the raven (crest two).
Briggs DJ, Collins S, Elliott P, Fischer P, Kingham S,
Labret E, et al.
Mary Ellen Kelm describes a similar approach in British Columbia where efforts to stamp out body practices were centred on isolating Aboriginal children in residential schools, while missionaries also pressured adults to 'adopt imported clothing styles and non-indigenous housing and village design, and to desist from cranial shaping, tattooing, the use of the
labret, and other Aboriginal corporeal practices' (1998: 174).
2003 'Oral Implications of
Labret Use: A Case from Pre-Columbian Chile.' International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 13, no.
In relation to cultural modifications to the body, individual 1948 was not buried with a
labret, an adornment seen with only in two adult males (2/52 males) in this sample.
For the same price a customer can have a real piercing with a metal bar, called a
labret, fitted.
A
labret, which is a wire or snub-nosed piece of jewelry, can be inserted into the cleft of the chin.
Much of the terminology relating to Indian life in general is of Tupi inspiration, such as tembeta, the
labret or stone lip-plug worn by prominent braves, and maraca, a gourd rattle.
LABRET A Small library B Lip ornament C Roman military standard who am I?
In addition to that, there are facial piercings available, such as
labret piercing, monroe piercing, nose piercing and eyebrow piercing.