Ear ornament (Turkana: awalia)
These aluminium leaf-shaped ornaments are still worn by Turkana women on the upper part of the ear. Cut from old cooking pots, the metal is beaten into shape and then punch-decorated.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 10/2010/36/2
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Personal ornament
- Material
- aluminium
- Common Name
- ear ornament (Turkana: awalia)
- Simple Name
- ear ornament
- Production County
- Northwest
- Production Country
- Kenya
- Production Year Low
- late 1960s
- Production Year High
- 1973
