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almond-shaped (mandorla) silhouette with a flat top and bottom
Size: ∼130cm x 68cm
Each is hand-shaped from clay dug along local riverbanks
such masks would also dance each year during the peak of the rainy season
salvaged from old barns and mills in rural China
Vintage Beaded Maasai Calabash - Kenya - 52.7 Angler in Dinghy almond-shaped (mandorla) silhouette with aA vintage beaded calabash from the Maasai people of Kenya. Made from a naturally dried and hollowed gourd, it was traditionally used to store and cool milk or water, and has taken on a warm, honey toned patina through years of use. Bands of traditional Maasai glass beads white, red and blue, threaded onto leather straps wrap the body, while older repairs in metal and fine wirework are left on show: in Maasai culture a break is mended with intent