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Lip peg

The lip peg shows the small round indentation on the front that is typical of Tarascan lip pegs. A gemstone may have been set into it. Lip stakes were worn in a slit below the lower lip. The widened base prevented them from falling out.

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Cultural attribution
Tarasken (?)
Object type
Lip peg
Dimensions
Height: 1,1 cm
Depth: 1,6 cm
Width: 2,5 cm
Material/Technique
Obsidian
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 765 g

Provenance and sources

Production
when
1300 - 1521
where
Mexico
who
Tarasken (?)
Collecting
who
Carl Adolf Uhde (1792-02-02 - 1856-11-17) - Collectors
Assignment to a curated holding:
American Archaeology

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