Context (Amendments / updates)
For items E 1912.7.1-76 a catalogue card notes 'see Blue Book 1912 159-186 and 506-560. Most of these numbers have been given Z numbers, the cards however are still filed according to the order of of the original 1912.7 numbers.' The catalogue card reads 'wrong no' on object' in pencil. Marked with Z number.
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for E 1912.7.7 [A-B]: 'A child's reed necklace (Nbaga).' The catalogue card also notes Embu, Kenya Colony.
Event Date
Author: maa

Description (Physical description)
Two neck ornaments, each of a single long strand, looped to form 6 loops, and bound together at one place, strung on plant fibre.
Event Date 11/6/2018
Author: rachel hand

Context (Analysis)
'Neck ornament made from brown beads tied with strings. Beads are drilled with a hole so that they may be strung together using strings made from sisal or tree-bark. Worn by Embu children.

'Educated at Wellington College and the Royal Military Academy, Orde Brown was seconded to the Colonial Office as an Assistant District Commissioner in the British East Africa Protectorate (later Kenya), 1909-1915, during which time he must have collected the Embu necklace. This period corresponded with the beginning of the first World War. From Kenya he subsequently served in Tanganyika till his retirement in 1931.'

Description provided by Nyamanga as part of the Rethinking Relationships Project, 6 August 2021.

Event Date 6/8/2021
Author: Mark Elliott

Description (Physical description)
Nbaga. Children's neck ornament, made of of a single strand of reed beads, and looped six times. The beads are string onto sisal or tree bark, which is wrapped around the ornament to form the the loops.
Event Date 15/3/2022
Author: Sam Daisley