Bracelet

About this object

History of use

This could have made for the Massai themselves or for trading purposes.

Narrative

Collected in a Maasai village, where the headman's name was K'soi.

Physical description

Bracelet with six rows of beads on wires, connected at each end and divided at four different places with small, rectangular pieces of red plastic. The light blue, clear light orange-yellow and shiny dark grey-blue beads are arranged in a geometric triangular pattern. At one end there are two small wire loops and at the other there are two wire hooks for attaching the ends together.