SB.1.34
Pair of earrings
Pair of earrings. Samburu. Rendille. Kenya. No 73. XI.B.7. Original list: "Samburu. Earring. Copper, buttons, vegetable fiber. Man, warrior". Earrings in the shape of arches, with mother-of-pearl button, elaborated in iron wires doubled with copper wires. See "Sakara oirena"; "Sakara olaa"; "Ilmasi wala"; "Ilmasi opiaya"; "Ilmasi wochiko"; "Mikuri" by J. Adamson. 1967: 345-348. See "A Samburu moran - member of the warrior class" in David Keith Jones, 1984: 84-85. See "Young Rendille warrior & Young Rendille warrior and a senior" in Staff of Consolata Fathers. Rendille: 4-5.
Category: Earrings
Material: Copper wire, iron wire, plant fiber, unidentified material: button.
Location: Kenya
Dimensions in Centimeters:
Length: 3.5
Width: 3
Height: 1