Maasai Olbene Leather Beaded Bag Kenya

A leather bag probably from the Maasai. The Maasai people of East Africa live in southern Kenya and northern Tanzania, along the Great Rift Valley, on semi-arid and arid lands. Among the Maasai, such bags are known as Olbene. Very often they would be embellished with glass beads forming elegant curves, vertical lines, and other geometric motifs. Olbene leather bags were used by women to hold water or other valuable belongings.