Start a team that will take random and unusual photo's and post them. Be creative and whacky with them!!

“Lip plugs (labrets) were worn by men. Starting at about age 13, both sides of a young man’s lower lip were pierced. The holes were gradually enlarged by inserting bigger and bigger plugs.

Inuit, Alaska, 1875-1900
TAMU Collection.
HMNS 1691, 1692.”

photo and information taken on the third story of the Houston Museum of Natural Science in the ‘Arctic Indian’ (eskimos!) display.

i thought it was kinda gross. and funny. and it was ironic that i was with my friend Tori at the time, who has ear plugs, although hers werent quite as big as these ones (and hers were shiny blue plastic, not splintery wood). She thought they were cool.

i sent this to my cousin in germany for christmas. i hope she appreciated it.

my best friend is… “the consumer”