Earrings

Museum number:
5-14507
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21050014507
Accession number:
Acc.3942
Description:
Earrings. 2 oblong leather pieces with flaps on the back, and beaded cross-pattern of blue seed beads traversed with red seed beads on the front. Lengthwise there are larger white, red, and blue beads. The 2 pieces are attached with red, black, and white beads with triangle-shape tin pieces. Length 15 centimeters.
Donor:
Morris Kadish and Ruth S. Kadish
Collection place:
Kenya
Verbatim coll. place:
Kenya; Masai
Culture or time period:
Maasai people
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Earrings (jewelry)
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Earrings, accession number 5-14507, described as Earrings. 2 oblong leather pieces with flaps on the back, and beaded cross-pattern of blue seed beads traversed with red seed beads on the front. Lengthwise there are larger white, red, and blue beads. The 2 pieces are attached with red, black, and white beads with triangle-shape tin pieces. Length 15 centimeters.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Earrings, accession number 5-14507, described as Earrings. 2 oblong leather pieces with flaps on the back, and beaded cross-pattern of blue seed beads traversed with red seed beads on the front. Lengthwise there are larger white, red, and blue beads. The 2 pieces are attached with red, black, and white beads with triangle-shape tin pieces. Length 15 centimeters.

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