These 23 items of multi-colored beadwork include earrings, armbands, necklaces, and bracelets. The Maasai wear numerous items of jewelry that use a complex code of colors, patterns, numbers, and placement to indicate status, such as marriage or motherhood for women or initiation and warrior status for men. Rules of color order balance and motifs are followed. Correct placement on arms, ankles, wrists, and ears is followed.
No
Maasai
Kenya
beadwork
Jewelry
1995.01.375
1995
There is only one entry for this item; I put (1995.01.375) for this entry and will include the other accession numbers below:
1995.01.376
1995.01.377
1995.01.378
1995.01.379