Necklace

AF4642

From: Kenya

Curatorial Section: African

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Object Number AF4642
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Akikuyu
Provenience Kenya
Section African
Materials Glass | Wood
Description

Pieces of gourd necks and blue glass beads, the former are "filled with medicine and when they have pain they take out some of this, chew it up, and rub on places of pain."

Credit Line Purchased from Lawson S. Propst and William Wight, 1917

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