Kasena Stone Armband, Ghana

Glossy black with a white lightning crack and an unbothered attitude.

This armband is Kasena, from Northern Ghana, West Africa. It is granite. The Kasena live in northern Ghana and southern Burkina Faso, and they are known as farmers, builders and makers of decorated compound walls. Dark, polished-looking ring with a broad, smooth band and a thin white vein running diagonally down the left side. A second pale line crosses the top, and the opening is a neat circle. It is 0.5 inches deep and 4 in diameter.

Sleek enough to forgive the hairline drama.