Pitt Rivers Museum Anthropology and World Archaology

 

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Horn armlet

Kenya

 

Collected by Henry Balfour

Given to the Museum in 1928

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Horn armlet, Kenya

African armlets were often worn as markers of status. This buffalo-horn armlet from Kenya was worn on the arm above the elbow by men of a particular social position.

View database record 1928.21.19