Beaded apron, of blue and white glass/ paste beads and cowrie shells on grass string with 4 vertical hide (?wood) spacers.

Collection type: Object
Description: Beaded apron, of blue and white glass/ paste beads and cowrie shells on grass string with 4 vertical hide (?wood) spacers.
Geographical reference: Kenya
Africa > Eastern Africa > Kenya
Cultural groups: Kikuyu
Person: Field collector William Scoresby Routledge; PRM source John Harington
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1951
Date collected: By 1951
Acquisition information: Donated: 1951
Materials and processes: Material Bead, Material Glass, Material Cowrie Shell, Material Grass Fibre Plant, Material Animal Hide Skin, Material Wood Plant, Process Beadwork, Process Strung, Process Incised, Process Carved
Dimensions: Width: max 150 mm, Length: max 710 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1951.10.23
Research and responses: Related Documents File - Letter from John Harrington to Beatrice Blackwood dated 25 September, 1951, with information on his decision to donate Routledge's collection to the Pitt Rivers Museum: 'The late W. Scoresby Routledge died in 1939. By his will he appointed me his sole residuary legatee. He left no instructions for the disposal of his scientific or anthropological papers or specimens . . . They were given by me to the Pitt Rivers Museum in conformity with what I believe to have been his intention . . . .' [GI 4/2/2002]

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