Lip plug (Pokot: apunoy)
Lip plugs are worn by both men and women after their initiation. They are cold forged on stone then hammered or they’re cut from old cooking pots, melted down and hammered into shape.
Acquired by Sheila Unwin 17 October 1972
Acquired by Sheila Unwin 17 October 1972
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 10/2010/35/1
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Personal ornament
- Material
- aluminium
- Common Name
- lip plug (Pokot: apunoy)
- Simple Name
- lip plug
- Production Country
- Kenya
- Production Year High
- 1972