Group of ethnographica
East Africa
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Provenance
Dietmar Scheit, Berlin, GermanyDescription
5 pieces, a) calabash, Massai/Kenya, pumpkin, l: 39 cm, lid and handle made of animal skin, embroidered with miniature glass beads and seeds, tear (handle); b) belt, l: 113 cm, b: 4 cm, plant fibre netting, sewn with cowrie shells, knot-shaped ornament in the middle, embroidered with miniature glass beads; c) whistle on beaded cord, fixed by blackish mass with red and white beads, l: 9,2 cm; d) wedding badge, cowrie shells arranged in a circle, attached to plantfibre netting