Headband

Museum number:
5-14508
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm21050014508
Accession number:
Acc.3942
Description:
Headband. Circular beaded leather piece with a triangle-shape tin piece hanging in the front, and tubular plastic pieces of orange, silver, and blue in the back. Alternating rectangular shapes of red, green, white, orange, and blue beads are on the outside of the headband. Diameter 52 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:
Headbands (headgear)
Function:
2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
Department:
Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Headband, accession number 5-14508, described as Headband. Circular beaded leather piece with a triangle-shape tin piece hanging in the front, and tubular plastic pieces of orange, silver, and blue in the back. Alternating rectangular shapes of red, green, white, orange, and blue beads are on the outside of the headband. Diameter 52 centimeters.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Headband, accession number 5-14508, described as Headband. Circular beaded leather piece with a triangle-shape tin piece hanging in the front, and tubular plastic pieces of orange, silver, and blue in the back. Alternating rectangular shapes of red, green, white, orange, and blue beads are on the outside of the headband. Diameter 52 centimeters.

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