Armlet
Armlet made by an older woman to be worn by a younger unmarried woman for community dances. The danglers are fashioned from recycled aluminium, cut cold from unused cooking pots. These moon-shaped danglers are called tulamba.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 196/2007/2
- Category
- Ethnography
- Collection Class
- Personal ornament
- Collection Area Region
- E
- Material
- glassvegetable fibrealuminium
- Common Name
- armlet
- Simple Name
- armlet
- Production County
- Kitui area (Ukambani region)
- Production Country
- Kenya
- Production Year Low
- 1969
- Production Year High
- 1972
