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Herein lies a gallery of our offerings of labret and septum shapes, as well as ethnographic pieces.
Click on the highlighted words above to go directly to those sections.
Materials utilized and shown include: water buffalo horn, bone, fossilized mammoth and walrus ivory, amber, obsidian, quartz crystal, jade, agate, and copper.
Custom wood (6ga current minimum) or bamboo pieces (7ga current minimum) can also be made to order.
We do not currently offer custom stone nor amber.
Please visit the specific material pages on the rest of this website
to view full information about availability, prices, and sizing.
Other body jewelry offerings for non-earlobe piercings available elsewhere on this website include:
ethnic septum rings, upper ear cartilege jewelry (hoops or dangling earrings from India, and gold internally threaded barbells from S. India), and custom tongue shapes from hardwood.
There are a lot of possibilities for other shapes which can be used in a number of areas, depending on the thickness of the piercing and the appropriateness of the shape. For example, we have had customers use claw shapes in upper ear or navel piercings, cylinder shapes for nipple, conch, and a variety of below the belt piercings, and one-flares for all manner of things. Be creative!
:: Labrets ::
Labrets have a straight shaft with an attached backing disc. Our backing discs are either round or oval. Of course these can be worn in more than just a labret piercing, especially if a one-flare design is desired.
Sizes range from 14ga up to 5/8" in horn or bone, and 4ga through 5/8" in Mexican amber and stone.
Shown below include some inlay possibilities, including opal inlay horn labrets, and gold inlay in obisidian.
Some people have used other shapes such as saddles or cylinders with one or two o-rings in a variety of materials for labret jewelry instead. Examples of these shapes can be found elsewhere in this website.
Stone labrets, in a wide variety of rocks, such as:
black obsidian, snowflake obsidian, green jade, fluorite, and red agate.
Note that most big-gauge stone labrets are made with oval backing discs,
some of which are curved to fit the gum line.
:: Septums ::
Septums can be straight spikes or slightly bent tusks, with pointed or blunt ends.
Shown below are water buffalo horn and bone septums,
also shown in the shapes section of our horn and bone page.
Sizes currently range from 14ga up to 3/4" on the wearing surface.
Other shapes that have been utilized by customers for septum piercings include the following
(which also appear in the other horn and bone section of our horn page):
horn or bone pinchers (super small in overall diameter),
horn or bone CBR shapes (not as small overall),
porcupine incisor teeth or quills, horn hairpipes,
and, not shown on this page, boar or warthog tusks...
The following long cylinders (rods) or crescent shapes in various stones
can all be found on our stone page.
Other possibilities and natural materials for septums include:
long rods or short retainers in bamboo (which can be custom ordered with any length),
or short cylinders or mild saddle shapes as retainers in amber, stone, horn, bone, or hardwood.
:: Ethnic Septum and Labret Jewelry ::
Some of the jewelry below would be difficult to wear, though we've had customers who have sported similar ones! They are also great as display or collector's pieces.
Shown first are several West Sepik (New Guinea) bone septum tusks.
Shown second is the front and back views of an intricate Solomon Islands shell nelo septum piece.
Third shown is a rare Aboriginal nose bone with resin ends and slight traces of pigment.
Fourth are old Thai hilltribe omega shapes.
These are traditionally worn in lobes,
but are singles and have been worn in septums by our customers.
Pre-Columbian gold septum pieces from: Peru (flat in cross-section),
Panama (front and back views shown in the middle), and
Columbia (three different septums shown last, two of which have side 'wings').
Three views of a Pre-Columbian obsidian labret.
Turkana tribe (east African) aluminum leaf-shaped septums
and long woven copper labrets.
Several Neolithic African quartz labrets and plugs gathered from present-day Mali.
Southern Ethiopian tribal women's giant clay lip plugs (aka lip plates);
some are plain, and some have incised decorations.
Click on the smaller thumbnails to view images at life size.
...and finally, these bottom pieces are fossilized walrus ivory labrets excavated from Alaska.
Irian Jaya or Papua New Guinea huge shell or pig bone septums (depicted on our Ethnic: Sold page),
as well as Pre-Columbian quartz labrets are also occasionally available.
:: All prices listed are wholesale to shops :: Retail prices to individuals are twice those listed ::
