Beaded armlet
Armlet design suggests that it was possibly made by the Kikuyu living close to the Kamba border. The single cowrie is acting as a device to protect the wearer from evil. The danglers suspended on copper chains are cold cut aluminium moon-shaped terminals called tulamba.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 10/2010/16
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Personal ornament
- Material
- copper | aluminium | glass | shell |
- Common Name
- beaded armlet
- Simple Name
- armlet
- Production Town
- Production Country
- Kenya
- Production Person Initials
- Production Person Surname
- Production Year Low
- Production Year High
- 1973
