Serpent labret with articulated tongue
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title:
Serpent labret with articulated tongue
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The serpent labret with articulated tongue is a gold Aztec lip plug from the mid-second millennium AD. Designed to be inserted in a piercing below the lower lip, it depicts a fanged serpent preparing to strike, with a bifurcated tongue hanging from its mouth. The tongue, which is moveable and retractable, would have swung from side to side with its wearer's movements. According to a curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the labret is "perhaps the finest Aztec gold ornament to survive the c
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Gold Aztec lip plug from c. 1300–1521 AD
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serpent_labret_with_articulated_tongue
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2024-02-07T08:53:17Z
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