Pair Labrets Without Glass Item Number: E7715-0 from the National Museum of Natural History
Notes
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/170 , retrieved 2-10-2020: A pair of labrets made from marble and shaped by grinding and polishing. Both have an outer disk that may have been intended to have had a split bead mounted to it. One has an inner flange, while the other has a square peg that might have been intended to have had a metal inner flange attached to it. 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.
Item History
- Made in Northwest Territories, Canada
- Collected in Northwest Territories, Canada
- Received from Roderick R. MacFarlane on January 7, 1869
What
- Name
- Pair Labrets Without Glass
- Identification Number
- E7715-0
- Type of Item
- labret
Who
- Culture
- Eskimo, Inuit and Inuvialuk
- Received from
- Roderick R. MacFarlane
Where
- Holding Institution
- National Museum of Natural History
- Made in
- Northwest Territories, Canada
- Collected in
- Northwest Territories, Canada
When
- Acquisition Date
- on January 7, 1869
Other
- Accession Number
- 69A00012