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Shoulder cloth (Enanka)

Shoulder cloth (Enanka)

Noolarami ene Solonka

Maasai

Maasai

Kaputiei section

Merrueshi community

This cloth is manufactured outside Maasailand and all Maasai women wear it for special occasions. During the Enkipaata festival, a pre-circumcision ceremony, boys undergoing initiation must dress in enanka. Otherwise, men are prohibited from wearing this cloth.


Cotton
42 1/2 x 62 in. (108.0 x 157.5 cm), width x length
General Acquisition Fund
2000.12.19.2
location
Not currently on view

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