DepartmentAfrica

Necklace

NameNecklace

CultureMaasai

Date1973

Place madeMASAI TERRITORY, KENYA, AFRICA

Mediumsynthetic, wire

DimensionsLargest: 1/8 × 10 in. (0.3 × 25.4 cm)

Credit LineMuseum of International Folk Art, Gift of Patricia Sanders Barylski, A.1989.8.1v

Object numberA.1989.8.1v

Collections

Africa.

Description3 pieces: overlapping rings of graduated sizes. Beads strung on stiff wire. Each segment is circular, has 5-8 rows of beads which are black and orange, arranged so colors are in blocks punctuated by white. Smallest segment has a red-orange bead-like pendant.