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FROM CARD: "7435-7. 7435 - 5 SPECIMENS." Note: as of 2017, 6 labrets have been located with this number.SI ARCHIVE DISTRIBUTION DOCUMENTS SAY [a needle case with this number was] SENT TO PEABODY MUSEUM, HARVARD, MASS. 1887.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/115 , retrieved 1-28-2020: Six small ivory labrets. One end of each labret, which was intended for the inside of the cheek, is expanded into a slightly oblong flange. The opposite ends are narrower, and are slightly rounded. Each has a hole drilled through the narrow end, which might have been used for stringing these labrets together. The style small size of these labrets suggests that they were used by a young male.