Earring

Museum number:
5-13275
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21050013275
Accession number:
Acc.3321
Description:
Earring., Kenya, Masai. 5-13275, acc no. 3321. File code: 2.2 Donor: Dr. Harold B. Van Maren. Materials, techniques: Leather, glass beads, tin Description: Earring; oblong doubled leather strip decorated on front with glass beads and triangles of tin; incomplete (beaded thong for attachment not included); l. 17.2 cm.
Donor:
Harold B. Van Maren and Mrs. Harold B. Van Maren
Collection place:
Kenya
Verbatim coll. place:
Kenya; Masai
Culture or time period:
Maasai people
Collector:
unknown
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Earrings (jewelry)
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Earring, accession number 5-13275, described as Earring., Kenya, Masai. 5-13275, acc no. 3321. File code: 2.2 Donor: Dr. Harold B. Van Maren. Materials, techniques: Leather, glass beads, tin Description: Earring; oblong doubled leather strip decorated on front with glass beads and triangles of tin; incomplete (beaded thong for attachment not included); l. 17.2 cm.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Earring, accession number 5-13275, described as Earring., Kenya, Masai. 5-13275, acc no. 3321. File code: 2.2 Donor: Dr. Harold B. Van Maren. Materials, techniques: Leather, glass beads, tin Description: Earring; oblong doubled leather strip decorated on front with glass beads and triangles of tin; incomplete (beaded thong for attachment not included); l. 17.2 cm.

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