Labret
A labret is a kind of plug inserted through a piercing below the lower lip. In the world of the Aztecs and their contemporaries in Mexico ca. 1300-1520 CE, the labret was usually a sign of status or even ethnic identity. Labrets were often made of materials symbolic of the imp...
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Throckmorton Fine Art, New York [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; John G. Bourne, September 18, 1994, by purchase; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 2017.
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