Lip plate
Videos
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
Mursi people
Videos
The Mursi are a Surmic ethnic group in Ethiopia. They mostly reside in the Debub Omo Zone of the South Ethiopia Regional State, near the border with South Sudan. According to the 2007 national census,
Lip plate
…attributes of human skin, the plate's size may often depend on the stage of stretching of the lip and the wishes of the wearer. Among the Surma and Mursi people of the lower Omo River valley in Ethiopia, about 6 to 12 months before marriage, a young woman has her lip pierced by her mother or one of her…
Mursi men
Young Mursi women in Mago National Park
Mouthpiece plate from the Mursi Tribe
Mursi woman