KENYAN BOVINE HORN SALT & PEPPER SHAKERS This is a style atypical

This is a style atypical to usual design

often used by official calligraphers and itinerary scribes who would travel for business or attendants posted near a city gate who would write out legal or administrative documents for illiterate citizens

are containers designed to carry water

An antique papier-mâché bowl from India

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KENYAN BOVINE HORN SALT & PEPPER SHAKERS This is a style atypicalUpon their arrival over four centuries ago, the Maasai built an economy and way of life deeply intertwined with their cattle herds in the Great Rift Valley of southern Kenya and northern Tanzania. Many, if not all, parts of the cattle were used in trade, including their horns to create everyday objects. This pair of vintage salt and pepper shakers, from Kenya, is no exception. Made of bovine horn and hand painted with small and delicate, dark,