Pladenn-weuz : diforc'h etre ar stummoù

* Ar bobl [[suyá]] ([[Brazil]]): gwezhall e veze gwisket pladnnoù gant ar wazed. Bremañ ne ra ket gante an darn vrasañ dioute avat; men (most no longer wear plates)

* Ar bobl [[botocudo]] ([[Brazil]]): er c'hantvedoù tremenet e veze implijet pladennoù-gweuz koulz gant ar wazed ha gant ar maouezed. (in previous centuries, both sexes wore plates)

 

In some Amazonian tribes, young men traditionally have their lips pierced when they enter the men's house and leave the world of women.<ref>http://www.socioambiental.org/pib/epienglish/suya/orn.shtm</ref><ref>Anthony Seeger: "The meaning of body ornaments: a Suya example," Ethnology 14(3) pp 211-224, 1975.</ref> Lip plates there have important associations with oratory and singing, and the largest plates are worn by the greatest orators and war-chiefs, like the well-known environmental campaigner Raoni<ref>[http://gertonline.free.fr/Raoni Raoni - Le combat d'un chef Indien d'Amazonie<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> of the [[Kayapo]] tribe.