Lip Gallantry, or certaine Labiall fashions invented by divers Nations
The Macuas, not farr from Macambique, among other notes of their Gallantry, have holes in their Lips, in the upper of which they put little pegs of wood, as big as a hens quill; of a finger long, sticking right out like a naile, in the lower Lip they weare a leaden bung, so close and heavy that the lip fals to the beard, shewing their gums and filed teeth, that they seem divils: this is their gallantry, or rather their loathsome bravery; for when they are sad they leave these holes open, and many others of their owne making.
--John Bulwer, Man Transform'd: or, the artificiall Changling (1653).
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