ABSTRACT
I stretched my earlobes and my lip at my mother’s place. It was my father who brought the nail (gissimari), the iron metal (siggi), like the ones used for [rubber] shoes. My father knew how to [pierce my lip]. He would prepare the wooden plugs and my mother would prepare the clay (dhor) [for lip-plugs and lip-plates]. It is stretched until it becomes big like this [stretching her arms in front of her]. When it cools, once it heals, the cattle [bridewealth] are given. Now this [custom] is finished; the people have become wealthier now. It [the lip-plate] is nice, but it hurts. It’s fine if they stop.
