Beyond lip service : an analysis of labrets and their social context on the Pacific Northwest Coast of British Columbia
This thesis provides an analysis of the history and social context of the labret (lip plug) on the Northwest Coast of British Columbia over the last 5,000 years. Although labrets have typically been characterized as markers of ‘status’ with connotations of gender, the variability in observations ma...
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University of British Columbia
2008
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/1592 |