History of Body Piercing Part 2

Video Transcript

" Hi! My name is Rick Wyckoff. You can check out our website at avatartat2.com. I’m here on behalf of expertvillage.com, talking about history of piercing. In modern times, stainless steel, like this barbell, is often what’s used in a tongue piercing for say. In ancient Mexico, they would use a thorn to pierce a woman’s tongue right after she’d given birth to ensure that she passed on the traditions of her family and of her culture to her new offspring. These earplugs are made out of mammoth fibery. They were carved in Nepal and brought here to America. They’re almost perfectly symmetrical in the carvings and their exquisite detail, done by a master carpenter apparently. In the modern times, this captive bead ring is a common piece of jewelry, also this nostril screw. You see this type of jewelry is worn by modern people, but the design is actually used in ancient India. Women’s piercing has a little jewel right in front of it. This is the only part that you actually see. The rest of the jewelry is on the interior of the nostril. It gets fed through the opening, and then once it’s seated properly, this part actually goes through the piercing and this part holds it in. This is called a flesh tunnel. Even though it has kind of a angle stretching your earlobes. It’s a really old tradition; a mark of somebody who’s educated and civilized. The mask of Tutankhamen he has stretch earlobes. The ancient civilizations in south America, in Mexico, all those sculptures and stuff, people have big plugs in their lips and stretched earlobes. Of course, all the traditions in Africa and even European traditions they stretched earlobes. "