A thick coating of filth and a strong odor of train-oil are inseparable from an Eskimo, and the fashion of labrets adds in no wise to his comeliness.
At Camden, labrets were made of large blue beads, glued to pieces of ivory.
Now pigments of various dye are applied, both painted outwardly and pricked into the skin; holes are cut in the face, and plugs or labrets inserted.
This suggestion is advanced with some misgivings, and only as a hypothesis to assist in determining for what purpose labrets and drinking tubes have been employed.
According to Dall the custom was probably adopted from the Inuit; he also shows that whenever labrets are worn in a tribe they are worn by both sexes, and that the women assume them at the first appearance of the catamenia.
On Masks, Labrets and certain Aboriginal Customs, with an Inquiry into the Bearing of their Geographical Distribution (Dall) 3: 67.
Each figure wears a small narrow maxtli and button-like labrets at each angle of the mouth.
Button-like labrets are worn on each side of the mouth in two of the figures, and all wear large circular ear plugs.
There are still at Point Barrow a few labrets of a very ancient pattern, such as are said to have been worn in the middle of the lip.
The oblong labret appears to have been still in fashion as late as 1826, for Elson saw many of the men at Point Barrow wearing oblong labrets of bone (cf.
These blue and white labrets appear to be worn from Cape Bathurst to the Kaniag peninsula, including the Diomede Islands (see figure on p.
As has been stated by all travelers who have visited Point Barrow since the time of Elson, all the adult males wear the labrets or stud-shaped lip ornaments.
The discussion of the origin and extent of this habit, or even a comparison of the forms of labrets in use among the Eskimo, would lead me far beyond the scope of the present work.
Petitot[N257] says that Cape Bathurst is the most eastern point at which labrets are worn.
The labrets or lip-ornaments, shirt-stud shaped effects worn in holes pierced in the cheek, strike us with interest.
The labrets of the men are offset by the long pendant earrings of the women, which are made from H.
Is it too fanciful to suggest that thelabrets are a sort of peripatetic idol carried around on the person as an imitation of the tusks of this God-Mammoth?
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