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Maasai Woman Showing Adornments Maasai girls begin adorning themselves with handmade necklaces and jewelry between nine and twelve years of age, as they start to associate themselves with warriors as friends and lovers. Usually each girl or woman, makes her own necklace using wire or sinew as thread and following the current fashions. Between seven and eight years of age, both males and females have the upper part of their right ear pierced and, when that is healed, the left ear is also pierced in the same spot. In a year or two, a bigger hole is pierced in the lobe of the right ear and then in the left ear. Wooden plugs or wads of leaves are inserted into the lobes to increase their size. The larger the lobe, the more beautiful the appearance. |
