Hip belt
This belt was usually made for a young man by his newly married wife. If the warrior was killed in battle the killer took this belt as proof of the kill and because it was the most valuable thing on the dead warrior.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 10/2010/12
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Personal ornament
- Material
- glassorganic fibreanimal hidecopper
- Common Name
- hip belt
- Simple Name
- belt
- Production Country
- Kenya
- Production Year High
- 1973