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A Maasai at the Olympics? |
| | eShopAfrica gets a lot of emails from all over the world asking
for help in getting African products. One day we got an email from H&H Sculptors in England who were
looking for authentic Maasai attire.
They were casting a full sized Maasai scupture for the exhibition: Ptychoseis: Folds + Pleats:
Drapery from Ancient Greek Dress to 21st-Century Fashion
organised by the Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation and the Cultural Olympiad.
Although eShopAfrica has some contacts in Kenya, we don't source authentic Maasai products (yet) so we asked for help
from some friends working with AMREF the Kenyan based NGO.
One of their staff bought the complete Maasai outfit including earrings, armbands and hair clips and sent them
to London where the statue was dressed before being sent to Greece. The photos below show the Maasai modelling for
for the cast and the finished sculpture - it's hard to tell which is which! |
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| | The Maasai model for the sculpture... |
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| | The finished piece as displayed at the Olympics |
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