enkuraru headdress, unrecorded Maasai artist

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enkuraru headdress, early 1900s–1968
Where object was made: Kenya
Material/technique: pigment; shell; beading; dyeing; ostrich feathers; cloth; leather
Dimensions:
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 101 x 61 cm
Object Height/Width (Height x Width): 39 3/4 x 24 in
Credit line: Gift of Karen Sueetta Joyce
Accession number: 2007.2801
Not on display

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Archive label, 16 February 1989:
A Maasai warrior wears and ostrich feather headdress when going into battle. These are "quite rare now that the killing of the ostrich is forbidden by law in East Africa.