Turkana
Woman’s Front Waist Ornament
Turkana, 1933-1966
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Turkana
Woman’s Front Waist Ornament
Turkana, 1933-1966
Physical Qualities
Hide, opaque glass beads in white, red, dark blue, and yellow, 28 x 15.4 x 1.5 cm.
Credit Line
Gift of Carolyn Barnes, Alexandria, Virginia, in Memory of Murvil and Katherine Barnes
Object Number
1998.591
Woman's front waist ornament with six rows of lazy stitched opaque beads with two partials rows inserted, covering the entire surface; one red glass bead attached on back.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1998; collected by donor in Turkanaland in northern Kenya in 1972 while on assignment for USAID.
