Turkana
Unmarried Woman’s Apron (Nyrach)
Turkana, 1933
Scroll
Turkana
Unmarried Woman’s Apron (Nyrach)
Turkana, 1933
Physical Qualities
Leather, ostrich egg shell beads, 3/16 w/o straps x 8 1/4 x 1 7/8 in. (0.5 w/o straps x 21 x 4.7 cm.)
Credit Line
Gift of Carolyn Barnes, Alexandria, Virginia, in Memory of Murvil and Katherine Barnes
Object Number
1998.592
Woman's front waist ornament with entire edge, including backstrap, decorated in a continuous line of lazy stitched ostrich egg shell be
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1998; collected by donor in Turkanaland in northern Kenya in 1972 while on assignment for USAID.
"Design for Mobile Living Art from Eastern Africa," June 1, 2016 - Nov 27, 2016, BMA, Kevin Tervala and Shannen Hill.
On View: Wurtzburger, Gallery
