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Title: Kenyan Ceremonial Costumes
Post by: Kingscarbine on 02 March 2012, 12:30:52 PM
Found these stamps with tribal costumes. Lovely pics for painting some DA characters.

http://www.swakop.com/namibstamp/folklorepics/kenya220.jpg
http://www.swakop.com/namibstamp/folklorepics/kenya329.jpg
Title: Re: Kenyan Ceremonial Costumes
Post by: Plynkes on 02 March 2012, 05:20:27 PM
Wow! Those are smashing images. Thanks, KC.

Hungry for more I went net-hunting and found some others:

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/back%20to%20africa/Kenya-CeremonialCostumes1989.jpg)

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/back%20to%20africa/Kenya-CeremonialCostumes1987.jpg)


Just wish I could find some bigger pics these stamps.
Title: Re: Kenyan Ceremonial Costumes
Post by: Plynkes on 02 March 2012, 05:27:12 PM
Some bigger ones, unfortunately obscuring one another...

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/back%20to%20africa/141561.jpg)



Edit: Reasonably-sized pic of the whole lot, too big to show on the forum:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6j9Q6Yz2hJs/TPB7NmDDUoI/AAAAAAAACSc/OyHlYv6-5sc/s1600/Kenya%2B-%2BCeremonial%2BCostumes%2B1981-1989.jpg (http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_6j9Q6Yz2hJs/TPB7NmDDUoI/AAAAAAAACSc/OyHlYv6-5sc/s1600/Kenya%2B-%2BCeremonial%2BCostumes%2B1981-1989.jpg)
Title: Re: Kenyan Ceremonial Costumes
Post by: inkydave on 02 March 2012, 06:52:22 PM
Ooh nice find KC. Which figs do I use for a unit of stilt walking Duruma? ;)
Heres some Kenyan warriors from the 1880s. Which tribe?
Title: Re: Kenyan Ceremonial Costumes
Post by: Kingscarbine on 07 March 2012, 10:29:28 AM
 ;D Plynkes, you're the man!

I'm building a Masai force for DitDC and these pics are just what I needed to get some conversion ideas for possible opposition. At the moment I have two Masai "Moran" and one Meru units (60 figs total) + one bow of armed skirmishers and one with muskets. I found pics and old photos of Meru warriors but don't know how the Dorobo and Arusha looked like.  :?
Title: Re: Kenyan Ceremonial Costumes
Post by: Plynkes on 07 March 2012, 11:07:42 AM
Arusha would be hard to tell apart from Masai, except that they had a few guns. They retained their Masai culture, the thing that set them apart was that they were exiles who had lost their cattle, so couldn't be considered as Masai by the "true" Masai.

Ndorobo:

(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/Plynkes/back%20to%20africa/ndorobo.jpg)

There's a Dorobo fellow in one of the colour plates of the Osprey covering the Great War in East Africa. He looks pretty much like the chap on the left with the bow in the above photo. His 'toga' and short hair are red and he has a Masai-style short sword in a scabbard at his waist.
Title: Re: Kenyan Ceremonial Costumes
Post by: Kingscarbine on 07 March 2012, 12:33:22 PM
Nice! I guess I'll use the Foundry Native bowmen with short hair for the N'dorobo instead of the braided air types... Or mix both...  ::)

Here are a few photos of Meru fellows (and a couple other tribes). I'll have to guess what colours to paint them but looks like a lot of black and white will be used   :D

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5012/5404996586_676cd6a8b3_o.jpg
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5059/5404994334_0022cbcca4_o.jpg
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5255/5404989302_4dc8a50c1a_o.jpg
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5291/5404379981_839e83174b_o.jpg
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5136/5404995490_4c91708438_b.jpg
http://safaritalk.net/uploads/1261731092/gallery_1_152_57355.jpg
http://safaritalk.net/uploads/1261731092/gallery_1_152_9980.jpg
Title: Re: Kenyan Ceremonial Costumes
Post by: airbornegrove26 on 07 March 2012, 01:26:17 PM
Plynkes and Kingscarbine great pics!  You are going to force me to buy some Masai.......Thanks a lot. =)
Title: Re: Kenyan Ceremonial Costumes
Post by: inkydave on 17 March 2012, 08:23:11 PM
Its a bump, but hopefully a useful one. Some more Kenyan warriors, from the Luo. Baracks dad was a Luo. If only he dressed like this at his inauguration lol
Title: Re: Kenyan Ceremonial Costumes
Post by: Kingscarbine on 19 March 2012, 12:31:58 PM
Nice photos. Just imagine what Mark Copplestone could do with these info.

Found this colour image of a Meru shield. Is it really blue or age altered the pygment? I think I'll paint the Meru shields with blue to give them a distinctive look from the Masai.

http://www.arts-primitifs.com/shop-africain/shields-polychromatic-leather-shield-meru-kenya-african-shields-p-2564.html?osCsid=5e85519d82e62a5d04bd23d79cc56c32

Another photo of Meru warriors:
http://digitalcommons.arizona.edu/x/exhibits/shantzafrica/_peopleother/item/359
Title: Re: Kenyan Ceremonial Costumes
Post by: Kingscarbine on 21 March 2012, 11:45:04 AM
Looks like I found inspiration for my Arusha   :-*

http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=21284.0
Title: Re: Kenyan Ceremonial Costumes
Post by: artshiraz on 21 March 2012, 11:52:22 AM
Greetings

Do you have those moments when you hear/see something and it triggers something else ?
For me the trigger was this ..
Quote from: Kingscarbine on 21 March 2012, 11:45:04 AM
.. my Arusha   :-*
..and I think "Arusha Station".

 :D I guess I will watch "Hatari" this afternoon  lol.

Sorry for the OT, please ignore me and continue
Magnificent pictures by the way
Jo

Title: Re: Kenyan Ceremonial Costumes
Post by: inkydave on 21 March 2012, 08:52:53 PM
Found a shield with some blue paint on it. Kikuyu, for a coming of age ceremony.
And some more Luo pics. :D