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
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.
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,
Raoni Metuktire
…continuous travel, during which he witnessed many tribal wars. Guided by his brother Motibau, in 1947, at the age of 15, he chose to have a painted wooden lip plate (called botoque by the warriors of his tribe) placed under his lower lip. Raoni and other members of the Metuktire tribe encountered the outside world…
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