Turkana
Woman’s Apron
Turkana, 1933-1966
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Turkana
Woman’s Apron
Turkana, 1933-1966
Physical Qualities
Hide, opaque glass beads in white, dark blue, red, yellow and green; iron beads and fiber, 37.5 x 22.5 x 1.5 cm.
Credit Line
Gift of Carolyn Barnes, Alexandria, Virginia, in Memory of Murvil and Katherine Barnes
Object Number
1998.590
Woman's front waist ornament with two rows of lazy stitched opaque glass beads at bottom; right and left edges decorated in iron beads.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by gift, 1998; collected by donor in Turkanaland in northern Kenya in 1972 while on assignment for USAID.
