Collar necklace

This neck collar is fashioned from short iron wire lengths that are covered in aluminium wire thread. Wirework is made by a specialist called kilingi. Knowledge of wirework came to the smiths in Kenya from the coast, after trade routes had been established between Lake Victoria and the east African coast in the early 19th century.

Object Summary

Accession Loan No.
10/2010/20
Category
Ethnography
Collection Class
Personal ornament
Material
aluminiumiron
Common Name
collar necklace
Simple Name
collar
Production County
Northwest
Production Country
Kenya
Production Year High
1973

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collar necklace