T-shaped labret
A non-utilitarian item was used to be worn in the cheek or lower lip. They are found in archaeological sites in the Pacific region from Alaska to the Islands of the Japanese archipelago in the period from 4 thousand years ago to ethnographic time.
Manufacturing technique
Labret is made with chipping off technique and the subsequent polishing.
Use-wear traces
The item is polished, probably while wearing.
Storage location
North-Eastern State University, Magadan cityInventory number
Стлб-1.ж.1 -2010/119The Museum KAMIS
NoSize
Length - 33 mm
Height - 23 mm
Thickness - 10 mm
Material
Siliceous shaleDating
2020 ± 25 years BPCulture
Tarinskaya archaeological cultureThe author of the excavations
Ponkratova I.Yu.2010
Publications
Ponkratova I.Yu. Arkheologicheskiye issledovaniya na severo-vostochnom poberezhye poluostrova Kamchatki v 2009–2011 godakh // Vostok Azii: problemy izucheniya i sokhraneniya istoriko-kulturnogo naslediya regiona. K 15-letiyu Tsentra po sokhraneniyu istoriko-kulturnogo naslediya Amurskoy oblasti. – Sankt-Peterburg: OOO «Izdatelstvo «Rostok». 2018. S. 229–236.
Vasilyevskiy R.S. Labretki v kulturakh Severotikhookeanskogo regiona // Arkheologiya. etnografiya i antropologiya. 2002. № 2 (10). S. 71-78.