Maasai Wedding Jewelry
Wearing gorgeous Maasai beaded wedding collars, bead working has a rich history among Maasai women on their wedding day. Bead working has a rich history among Maasai women. Maasai brides wear an elaborate beaded wedding collar or inkarewa on her wedding day. African jewelry such as the inkarewa is created from a wide variety of materials including beads, seeds, woods, gourds, bone, ivory, copper, and brass. Maasai Wedding Jewelry Generally, African jewelry is made from materials that are immediately available to the artist in their community. White beads created from clay, shells, ivory, or bone. Black and blue beads fashioned from iron, charcoal, seeds, clay, or animal horns. Red beads came from seeds, woods, gourds, bone, ivory, copper, or brass. The style of African jewelry is as wide and varied as the continent of Africa. African jewelry is created for more than personal adornment by the wearer; it also designates rank, class, affluence, rites of passage and tribal associ