Our Photography Director Kathleen Klech brought home more than a cover shot of Drew Barrymore from her trip to Kenya in 2011. She also wound up with these colorful necklaces, after dancing with the Samburu community in a traditional welcome ceremony. In the ritual, the Samburu villagers layer on dozens of the necklaces and move in such a way that the flat, beaded jewelry bounces and creates a unique rhythmic music, as a background for their singing. Afterward, they spread the necklaces out on sheets of fabric to be sold to visitors.
Photograph by Danielle Berman; video courtesy of Kathleen Klech