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Description: | Necklace made of a circlet of twisted blue beads and a circlet of twisted red beads, tied together in one place. Made by a married woman.
Blue and red bead necklace. Cow sinews are from neck and is ligament called NUCHAL, only long ligament in the backbone and in cows is stronger than in goats, so women will wait until cow is slaughtered if she wants to make her ornament properly otherwise she uses goat (MPITO) sinews, not so
caption: General view of whole of Horniman Museum object no 1972.47 | Publisher: | http://www.horniman.ac.uk/ | Rights holder: | Horniman Museum and Gardens | Subjects: | sinew bead wire necklaces (neck ornaments (personal adornment)) Samburu | Source: | Horniman Museum | Identifier: | oai:oai.horniman.ac.uk:object-54962 | Go to resource |
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