Description

These are two milk containers known as Akarum among the Turkana and Samburu tribes that live in the Turkana District of the Rift Valley in Kenya. They look like gourds, but are actually wood. Sometimes these milk jugs have a mild aroma of what it once contained. One of the jugs is decorated with beads and cowrie shells and a leather rope keeps the two jugs tied together. They are also used during the initiation of young men when they are called to drink the fresh blood of the cow mixed with milk contained in this kind of jug.