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Two Mursi Lip or Ear Plugs
- Culture
- Mursi
- Origin
- Ethiopia
- Period
- 20th century
- Object
- Lip Plug
- Materials
- Terracotta
- Dimensions
- 10 cm and 11 cm diameter
- Catalogue
- TRB-006
Two disc-shaped terracotta plugs of the kind worn in a pierced lower lip or earlobe by the Mursi of Ethiopia.
Provenance
Estate of Hannes Ziegler, Wiesendangen; Galerie Walu, Zürich; Helmut and Marianne Zimmer, ZürichAcquired
HAMMER AUKTIONEN, African, Oceanic, Asian and Ancient Art · 2020
