Her colorful and heavy beaded necklace indicates that she is married, while unmarried girls wear lighter necklaces of plain red beads. The long centre piece on her forehead, attached to her headband, indicates that she is a first wife, sent to Mt. Ololokwe, the Samburu sacred mountain, to worship Enkai, the creator god.
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