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A close look at tongue piercing jewelry history can bring to the fore a number of questions. It can introduce about as many questions as it answers. Why, for example, did the practice of tongue piercing not take-hold among the Native Americans who lived between Central America and the northwest region of North America? How did the ancients think that their gods could benefit from the collection of human blood on a sheet of paper? Did the male spiritual leaders make a conscious yet disguised effort to silence the tongues of any females who had attained to a position that raised their status in the community?

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History of Tongue Piercing Jewelry

At least five different groups of Native Americans viewed the practice of tongue piercing jewelry as a way for humans to pay homage to the gods of their ancient civilization. The Aztecs and Mayas of Central America and the Haida, Kwadiutul and Tinglit tribes in the northwest region of North America all revered special spiritual leaders, leaders that practiced tongue piercing. In the minds of those ancient peoples, the gods had given humans the gift of life. The gods thus expected to get something in return. By giving the gods the thing of greatest value to every human, i.e. blood, those ancients hoped to placate the gods. Those ancient people wrote one of the early chapters in tongue piercing jewelry history. The blood for the gods could not come from just any region of the body. It had to come from a body part that gave to a human special power. Women typically chose to obtain blood by allowing their tongue to be pierced. Tongue piercing history includes records that offer proof, proof that a woman could demonstrate her high status by using a stingray to pierce her tongue. That is why one finds the name “Lady Xoc” among the documents that have information on tongue piercing history. What Lady Xoc did would shock any modern woman. After piercing her tongue with a stingray, that daring Lady would thread a thorn-laden blade of grass through that same hole.

The latest notes on tongue jewelry history do not contain mention of such barbaric procedures. Today, the professionals who perform a tongue piercing go out of their way to minimize the chances for infection. Their efforts to avoid infection in the pierced region of the tongue have introduced, into accounts about tongue jewelry history, the mention of new tools. Present-day accounts about tongue piercing procedures frequently include the two words “tongue studs.” The special design on those tongue accessories allows them to facilitate the insertion of a hole into the tongue. Once that hole is in place, then the person who must talk and eat with the new tongue accessory needs something that will not easily catch on any object in the mouth. Jewelers no longer offer the person with a pierced tongue only a simple barbell. Jewelers have now designed other accessories that fit comfortably and safely into the hole created by a tongue piercing jewelry.

As piercing professionals perfect their skills, and as jewelers expand the selection of accessories that can go in a pierced tongue, an ever wider circle of daring youth has chosen to get a tongue jewelry. Will that circle become even wider? At this point, no one can predict what might need to be recorded in any future tongue piercing history.