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Fertility Figure905/11

Made out of nuts in three parts covered with nine dangling strands of bone, possibly that of vertebrae, that have a conical bone at each end. The top is covered with strands of hide. There is a piece of hide underneath the bone strands, which are also decorated with a white, red, and white bead at the top and middle.

Culture
Turkana
Material
nut, glass ?, fibre, skin and bone
Made in
Kenya
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Wrist Knife734/13

Wrist knife that has a U-shaped thin steel metal piece that is bordered on the interior and exterior by thin strips of leather skin. Exterior leather is attached to other side at the top with a chain. Exterior and interior leather pieces are connected with a small chain at the side. Interior leather piece has a coil of copper at the top. Steel metal is attached to the skin with copper wires through holes in the side and in the bottom.

Culture
Turkana ? or Karamojong ?
Material
steel metal, leather skin and copper metal
Made in
Kenya ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Headrest551/1

A wood headrest which has a long rectangular curved plane on top of a stand with a base. A braided hide rope is attached to the stand through two holes in the middle, one is on top and the other is on the bottom.

Culture
Turkana ?
Material
wood and skin
Made in
Ethiopia ? or Kenya ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Container905/9 a-b

Brown coloured tubular container (part a) with skin lid (part b). Container has skin(?) cording wrapped around centre. Large piece of skin covers the bottom and is stretched up to the middle of the container.

Culture
Turkana
Material
wood and cow skin
Made in
Kenya
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Container905/8 a-b

Brown bottle-shaped container (part a) with skin lid (part b). Skin is stretched across base of wooden container. Near the centre of the container, the skin sections off into five vertically positioned thin strips of skin, creating five panels of exposed wood with dark areas in the centre. The top of the strips are connected by a horizontally positioned strip of skin that is secured by a skin tie. Container is capped with a skin lid (part b) that has a long skin strap that hangs to the side of the container.

Culture
Turkana
Material
wood and cow skin
Made in
Kenya
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Container905/7

A horn (amuwara and/or ngamuwar) container with a skin lid and band of skin looped through tip of horn and through lid on concave side. Coil of metal wrapped around band, close to lid. Skin of lid and and parts of band still have fur attached. Three groups of long dark brown hair are attached to the band.

Culture
Turkana
Material
horn, metal, hair and skin
Made in
Kenya
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Fertility Figure905/4 a-b

Carved wooden figure dressed in a hide tunic. The tunic is decorated with four rows of blue and red beads that are grouped in sections of three. Eight rows of beads are draped around the neck. The figure has a square-shaped face, long fibre hair and bangs, and strands of blue and red, and orange and yellow beaded hair decorations.

Culture
Turkana
Material
wood, fibre, metal, glass and skin
Made in
Kenya
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Headrest905/2

Rectangular-shaped piece of wood that curves down slightly at each end. The base has a thin horizontally placed beam that extends the length of the rectangular-shaped piece of wood. Stemming from it is a small perpendicular piece of wood that splits into two pieces of wood that flare out slightly. The two pieces are bound with skin cording. Skin loops protrude from either side of the piece. Set of two spiral-shaped metal springs are attached to pieces of skin at the top and the bottom on each side.

Culture
Pokot ? or Turkana ?
Material
wood, skin and metal
Made in
Kenya
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ContainerAj113

Large, heavy container of dark wood. Circular shape with three hoops of wood rounded on the outside: two lower on the bottom and one on the upper part under the lid area. Lid is leather with two loops at the side pierced and connected to a hoop with a strip of leather. Leather carrying strap is also connected to a wood hoop. Some red-brown hair is still on the hide.

Culture
Turkana
Material
skin, leather skin and wood
Made in
Kenya
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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ContainerAj112 a-b

Container (part a) of orange-red brown wood. Bulbous-shaped that has a rounded lower half with narrow neck. Hide with hair is still on, covering the bottom, connected by four thin pieces to ring of hide around the neck of the container. Has a small hide strap handle connected to two straps on top of the ring of leather. Lid (part b) is also made of hide with a vertical slit going up one side.

Culture
Turkana
Material
cow skin and wood
Made in
Kenya
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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