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Ear piercing among the Alaskan Tlingits could be an indication of social status, as could nose piercing. Ear piercing for girls forms part of traditional rites in Thai and Polynesian cultures. The Maoris of New Zealand, though better known for their intricate and elegant tattoo designs, have also long practiced ear piercing, which along with nose piercing is widespread among native peoples of both New Zealand and Australia. Multiple ear piercing was practiced by both men and women in the ancient Middle East, and a mummy believed to be that of Queen Nefertiti of Egypt, sports two piercings in each ear. Many Native American peoples practiced ear or nose-generally septum-piercing (the latter most famously among the Nez Percé of the American Northwest). Ear and nose piercing seem to be, and seem to have been, the most popular indeed, there are far too many examples to list here, and the following instances should be taken as representative rather than anything close to exhaustive. While Malloy's claims are largely imaginative, there are geographically diverse cultures in which piercing has been continually practiced for quite some time. Artifacts as well as bodies offer evidence of ancient single and multiple ear piercings from as early as the ninth century b.c.e. Like many with a serious interest in piercing in the twenty-first century, the ice-man has stretched his lobes, in his case to a diameter of about seven millimeters.
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The oldest fully preserved human being found, the 5,300-year-old "ice-man" of the Alps, shows evidence of ear-lobe piercing. What facts can be sorted from the fiction nonetheless attest to the remarkable antiquity of piercing. No anthropological accounts bear out these claims.
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He declared, for example, that ancient Egyptian royalty pierced their navels (consequently valuing deep navels), Roman soldiers hung their capes from rings through their nipples, the hafada (a piercing through the skin of the scrotum) was a puberty rite brought back from the Middle East by French legionnaires, and that the guiche (a male piercing of the perineum) was a Tahitian puberty rite performed by respected transvestite priests.
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In the 1970s, the Los Angeles resident Doug Malloy, an eccentric and wealthy proponent of piercing, set forth with charismatic authority a set of historical references connecting contemporary Western body piercing to numerous ancient practices. Much of what popularly passes for the history of body piercing is in fact fictitious. While virtually any part of the body can be, and has been, pierced and bejeweled (for evidence, see the well-known Web site ) widely pierced sites include ear, eyebrow, nose, lip, tongue, nipple, navel, and genitals. Piercing is often combined with other forms of body art, such as tattooing or branding, and many studios offer more than one of these services. Body piercing is the practice of inserting jewelry (usually metal, though wood, glass, bone, or ivory, and certain plastics are used as well) completely through a hole in the body.