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Hat2598/3

Black pillbox style hat with brown and white embroidery. Upright and inverted heart designs are embroidered in two bands around the sides and around the edging of the top. Top has a circular pattern in the centre, quadrisected with cross-hatching and stylized S-shape patterns. Interior of hat has a white and purple lining.

Culture
East African
Material
cotton fibre ? and dye
Made in
Kenya
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Spear2548/1

Wooden spear with incised elongated diamond shapes surrounded by horizontal linear designs on the shaft. One end has a long, pointed metal piece and the other end has a flat arrow-head lance-olate shaped metal end which spirals into a flat diamond-shaped protrusion at the point where it tapers above the wood shaft.

Culture
Samburu
Material
wood and iron metal
Made in
Samburu, Kenya
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Knife2548/2 a-b

Part a is a steel knife with a black coloured cow horn handle. Handle has two sets of four metal bands alternating with three black coloured bands. On the bottom of the knife handle there is a circular piece of metal with two black circle outlines by the edge of the metal circle. Part b is a camel skin sheath that is sewn up one side (with sinew?). Near the opening, on either side of the stitching there are two flaps of extra skin. On the tip there is a cylindrical wrap of skin. There are burnt geometric and linear designs on both sides and top of the sheath.

Culture
Samburu
Material
steel metal, camel skin, sinew ? and cow horn
Made in
Isiolo, Kenya
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BraceletAj162

Beaded bracelet with leather strap and snap closure at ends. Beads are black and red double rows bordered by single row of yellow.

Culture
Maasai
Material
glass, leather skin, metal and fibre
Made in
Kajiado, Kenya
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Hat2598/2

Dark blue pill box style hat with red, white and yellow embroidering. Sides have two horizontal bands of red diamonds framing an abstract design with white diamonds and circular 'pig tail' shapes. Top of hat is edged with the same abstract design, framing a ringed red flower pattern. Interior of hat has a white lining.

Culture
East African
Material
cotton fibre ? and dye
Made in
Kenya
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Hat2598/1

Black pillbox-style hat with green and white embroidery. Side pattern shows two bands of inverted teardrop and triangle patterns. Edging of top is similar, forming a sunburst shape centred by a circular pattern quadrisected with cross-hatching and stylized S-shape designs. Interior of hat has a white and blue checked lining.

Culture
East African
Material
cotton fibre ? and dye
Made in
Kenya
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Man's Garment2598/5

Rectangular men's wrapper with tassled edging along sides. Wrapper is off-white with bands of green interspersed with yellow, black and red stripes running horizontally in series. Top and bottom extremities have green, yellow, black and white stripes, followed by a thick purple band at the edge. A muted yellow and red stripe runs vertically at the side edges.

Culture
East African
Material
dye and fibre
Made in
Kenya
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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Cloth2597/2

Rectangular printed fabric. In the centre are three horizontal bands of yellow flowers on a mulberry coloured background. The phrase 'KUZAA SI KUFANIKIWA KUZAA NI KUBARIKIWA' appears under the bottom band. Around the sides is a wide border, edged with a narrow black band. The border has rows of a white leaf motif within yellow and black diamond shapes, on a black and white spotted ground. A makers mark appears at two corners.

Culture
East African
Material
cotton fibre and dye
Made in
Kenya ?
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BraceletAj159

Beaded bracelet with three to four rows of black beads, one row red, one row yellow, and one row light green, repeating. There are eight bands of black with three rows and seven bands of black with four rows of beads.

Culture
Maasai
Material
glass, plastic and fibre ?
Made in
Narok, Kenya
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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BraceletAj158

Round beaded bracelet with repeating diagonal stripes of two rows of black, two rows of red, one row of light green and one row of yellow beads.

Culture
Samburu
Material
glass, plastic and fibre ?
Made in
Samburu, Kenya
Holding Institution
MOA: University of British Columbia
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