Necklace
Single strand of old blue and white glass beads that are threaded onto grass fibre (boabab). Usually worn by circumcised girls and young women but it is also made by wives for their husbands when participating in a dance called muthunguci.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 189/2008/12
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Personal ornament
- Collection Area Region
- E
- Material
- glassvegetable fibre
- Common Name
- necklace
- Simple Name
- necklace
- Production Country
- Kenya
- Production Year Low
- late 1960s
- Production Year High
- early 1970s
