Earrings
- Museum number:
- 5-13352
- Permalink:
- ark:/21549/hm21050013352
- Alternate number:
- JC135 (original number)
- Accession number:
- Acc.3332
- Description:
- Earrings; a pair; crescent-shaped; covered with red, blue, and white glass beads with linear overlay of varicolored larger plastic beads; wire foundation; earrings are connected by two strands of oblong beads; one earring 9 cm at top, other 9.5 cm at top.
- Donor:
- University Research Expeditions Program
- Collection place:
- Gob Ore, Kenya
- Verbatim coll. place:
- Kenya; Gob; Rendille
- Culture or time period:
- Rendille
- Collector:
- Jean Colvin and University Research Expeditions Program
- Collection date:
- Summer 1977
- Object type:
- ethnography
- Object class:
- Earrings (jewelry)
- Function:
- 2.2 Personal Adornments and Accoutrements
- Production date:
- ca. 1950s
- Context of use:
- High fashion around 1950s. Made by women and girls and worn by young women until the age when they have young daughters.
- Department:
- Africa (except Ancient Egypt)
- Comment:
- Glass trade beads strung on tire. Flat larger beads are from plastic arm bands. Surface smoothed by knife or broken pieces of glass. Hole is made with wire heated in the fire.
- Loans:
- S1981-1982 #25: de Saisset Museum (Santa Clara Univ.) (December 11, 1981–April 1, 1982) and S1985-1986 #40: SFO Museum (May 21, 1986–October 17, 1986)
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