Lip plate
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The lip plate, also known as a lip disc, mouth plate, or lip plug, is a form of body modification. Increasingly large discs are inserted into a pierced hole in either the upper or lower lip, or both,
Mursi woman with lip plate (2014)
Makonde woman with lip plate
Contemporary Mursi woman showing pierced lower lip without a lip plate
Mursi woman wearing a lip plate in Ethiopia
Raoni Metuktire
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Raoni Metuktire, also known as Chief Raoni or Ropni, is an Indigenous Brazilian leader and environmentalist. He is a chief of the Kayapo people, a Brazilian Indigenous group from the plain lands of th
Lip plate
…world of women. Lip plates there are associated with oration and singing. The largest plates are worn by the greatest orators and war chiefs, such as Chief Raoni of the Kayapo tribe, a well known environmental campaigner. In South America, lip plates are nearly always made from light wood. In the Pacific Northwest…
Raoni in 2023
Raoni with Sting in 1989 in Paris
Raoni in a conference in Brazil in April 2006
Raoni and French President Jacques Chirac in May 2000 at The Élysée Palace.