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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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Ethnologisches Museum
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Cultural attribution
Tarasken (?)
Object type
Lip peg
Dimensions
Objektmaß: 1,3 x 1,7 x 0,9 cm
Material/Technique
Obsidian
Current location
Ethnologisches Museum, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
Inventory number
IV Ca 765 t

Provenance and sources

when
1300 - 1521
where
Mexico [Land]
who
Tarasken (?)

who
Carl Adolf Uhde (1792-02-02 - 1856-11-17) - Collectors

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