The mamas of Kenya's Maasai Mara, home to the heroic Maasai warriors and a deep-rooted beading history, have managed to help restore their homeland through the production and selling of Rafiki ...

a group of Maasai women are threading beads to create multi-coloured, intricate patterns. The women make traditional beaded breast plates, earrings and bracelets that convey their social and ...

Did you know in the Maasai community beads have different meanings based on colour? There is a likelihood that you could be wearing the wrong colour in public. Among the Maasai, Samburu ...

Maasai wedding rituals are also unique in various senses. One such is the blessings from elders who guide the newlyweds in ...

Intricate beading flows around a Maasai tribeswoman dressed in traditional clothing near Amboseli National Park, Kenya. Photograph by Philip Lee Harvey, Cultura Exclusive/Getty Images Lightweight ...

The items are used for ceremonial purposes — song and dance figure large in Maasai culture — and also for adornment. The project also includes such wearable solar gear as beaded pouches for ...

“They hang some beads or a shuka [blanket that the Maasai wrap themselves in] in it and this will help them to conceive. If you cut the tree then you will be cursed.” Mokompo ole Simel is the ...

Mainly women make the beaded jewelry and baskets that have been part of Maasai culture for hundreds of years, Saitoti explains. "Beading is something you learn from your parents, passed down ...

Intricate beadwork is a fundamental part of Maasai culture in Kenya, with one generation of women teaching the next how to turn vibrant strings of beads into jewelry. The finished product "carries ...

Parmuat Ntirua Koikai, a Maasai elder, leads the way. The 58-year-old’s earlobes are weighed down by bright beads and his back is draped in a red-checked shuka (a traditional cloth robe).