piercing history

The different cultures of the world , sometimes unknown to the most advanced societies , are home to this practice , piercing , ritual or signal as belonging to one or another tribe. Very different from the fate of the piercing in our culture :
The Eskimos , although this is largely unknown , are those who originally used the name piercings " labrets ", which in his world was practiced on young people who went from being children to adults responsible cualidads and skills and to go hunt with their elders.

Another of the origins of body piercing in the Masai tribes , particularly in the female population, which deform their oral cavity to increase in size discs mouth and extend their earlobes carrying a large metal spools .

Another tribe with piercings or piercings tradition is that of the Mursi small plates that are placed in the earlobes .
Potok Warriors : carrying in his mouth a hard lip and traverse the septum with a leaf .

The women of New Guinea traverse with a fishbone nostrils and tabiqu while men wear in the wall fish teeth .

The Tinglits : In women of this tribe bore his body as a sign of transition from puberty to maturity in every way , but especially sexual .

Sioux tribes , the youth did undergo a test consisting chest pierced with hooks hanging with ropes to a tree to lacerate the skin , thus showing that they were prepared to be warriors .

The Maya practiced piercing lip piercing , nose and ears with jewelry more expensive than they could afford. The Indians were pierced nose Cashinawa to insert colored feathers indicating their rank.