Armlet
- Description
- Armlet made by an older woman to be worn by a younger unmarried woman for community dances. The danglers are fashioned from recycled aluminium, cut cold from unused cooking pots. These moon-shaped danglers are called tulamba.
- Accession Loan No.
- 196/2007/2
- Collection Class
- Personal ornament
- Common Name
- armlet
- Simple Name
- armlet
- Full Name
- dance armlet
- Dimensions
- whole width 192 mm; whole H 123 mm
- Cultural Group
- Kamba
- Production Year Low
- 1969
- Production Year High
- 1972
- Production County
- Kitui area (Ukambani region)
- Production Country
- Kenya
- Production Area Region
- East Africa
- Production Continent
- Africa
- Family Group
- Material
- glass ; vegetable fibre ; aluminium
- Function Name
- adornment and dance regalia
- Collection Area Region
- E
- Collection Continent
- Africa
