Kasena Stone Armband, Ghana

Heavy-lidded and chocolate brown, with a slight dent at the bottom.

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. Thick ring with a soft, slightly textured surface in brown with olive undertones. The opening is round, the lower inner edge is a little squared off, and tiny pits dot the band. It is 0.5 inches deep and 4 in diameter.

Solid, sober, and not in the least hurried.