Context (Field collection)
Collected in 1975 by the donor's father, John Ash, an ornithologist, in the Omo National Park, in south western Ethiopia from a group of people called the Mursi. The donor noted that 'I expect my father bought them from individuals - I do not know whether they were newly made or had been worn.  My father, John Ash was primarily an ornithologist, he was not attached to the university although he worked closely with Cambridge-associated conservation organisations'.
Event Date 20/6/2019
Author: rachel hand

Context (Acquisition Details)
Offered to the Museum in November 2012. The donor did not know how her father had acquired them,whether they were newly made or had been worn. John Ash was primarily an ornithologist and was not attached to the university although he worked closely with Cambridge-associated conservation organisations.
Event Date 20/6/2019
Author: rachel hand

Description (Physical description)
Two circular clay lip plug, one large in brown clay and one smaller in black clay
Event Date 16/11/2021
Author: rachel hand

Description (Physical description)
Measurements:

larger black lip plug: diameter 145mm; depth 18mm.

larger brown lip plug: diameter 131mm; depth 20mm.

smaller black lip plug: diameter 110mm; depth 20mm.

smaller brown lip plug: diameter 70mm; depth 19mm.
Event Date 6/5/2022
Author: Flo Sutton