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