Beaded headpiece with a triangular aluminium pendant.

Collection type: Object
Description: Beaded headpiece with a triangular aluminium pendant.
Long description: Young man's (Junior Moran) headpiece worn with pendant dangling over the nose. Seven strands of beads, grouped in two two-strands and a three strand with leather spacers, joined at the pendant to larger beads with a fourth large bead surrounded by two rows of small beads above three beads and an aluminium triangle. [BS [OPS Move] 8/12/2016]
Geographical reference: Kenya
Africa > Eastern Africa > Kenya; Uaso Nyiro Magadi Concession
Cultural groups: Maasai
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 Aluminium Metal, Material Bead, Material Animal Leather Skin, Process Strung
Dimensions: Width: max 75 mm, Length: max 300 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1968.20.202 Other numbers: M44

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