Marriage necklace
date: label: Accession Date
content: 24 Nov 2000
label: Collection Date
content: 1986
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Labelle Prussin
label: Donor Name
content: Dr. Labelle Prussin
notes: label: Notes
content: Bundle of thin strips of leather, arranged in a ring (necklace). Back half is wrapped in red cotton fabric. Front half is left exposed, and ornamented with beads: Red and yellow seed beads along the edge, thicker red beads in a vertical line at the center. A small strip of leather with a cowrie shell is attached to the bottom edge at the center, with 3 small metal discs hanging from short chains. Heavy, waxy white deposits all over the necklace.
label: Notes
content: Donor describes this as a "marriage necklace". She purchased it from a widower in Maralal, Kenya, in 1986. References: Jones, David Keith. Shepherds of the Desert. p 87, 97,126, etc. Fisher, Angela. Africa Adorned. p 39.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 20 Jan 2015
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Maralal, Kenya, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Samburu
label: Culture
content: Rendille
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 420734
label: USNM Number
content: E431625-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Necklace
physicalDescription: label: Length
content: 34 cm
label: Width
content: 22.5 cm
label: Height
content: ca. 2 cm