M0003749: Woman with lip decoration with a lip disc, Jur people / M0003750: Woman with lip and nose pierced, Moru people

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Lip decoration with a lip disc and many earrings, Jur people.

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Moru woman, lip and nose pierced.

Photograph of two images from Hutchinson, Walter: Customs of the world : a popular account of the manners, rites and ceremonies of men and women in all countries, London: Hutchinson, 1913. The image on the left shows a woman with a lip disc and many earrings from the Jur people, Eastern Bahr-el-Ghazal (Sudan). The image on the rights shows a woman with lip and nose pierced. She wears a species of grass in the holes and is from the Moru people, South east Bahr-el Ghazal (Sudan).

December 1933

2 photographs on 1 plate glass plate negative; 12 x 17 cm

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

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