Milk gourd with leather handle sewn on with fibre and with beadwork patches. [FC 05/08/2010]

Collection type: Object
Description: Milk gourd with leather handle sewn on with fibre and with beadwork patches. [FC 05/08/2010]
Long description: Milk gourd with leather handle sewn on with fibre and with beadwork patches. The leather handle has been plaited. The two patches of beadwork and semicircular, to top patch consists of red and yellow circular beads and the bottom patch consists of green, blue, white, yellow and red circular beads. [FC 05/08/2010]
Geographical reference: Kenya
Africa > Eastern Africa > Kenya; Baragoi
Cultural groups: Turkana
Person: Field collector Jean Brown Sassoon; PRM source Jean Brown Sassoon
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1968
Date collected: 1968
Acquisition information: Purchased: 1968
Materials and processes: Material Gourd Plant, Material Bead, Material Animal Leather Skin, Material Plant Fibre, Material Wood Plant, Process Plaited, Process Stitched, Process Patchwork, Process Beadwork
Dimensions: Diameter: max 157 mm, Height: max 365 mm excluding handle
Object numbers: Accession number: 1968.20.128 Other numbers: T17