Kasena Stone Armband, Ghana

Mottled brown and cream, with a gnarly inner rim and a squashed oval shape.

This armband is Kasena, from Northern Ghana, West Africa. It is granite. Armbands and bracelets of stone, metal and ivory have been worn across West Africa, where they may signal age, status or belonging to a group. Chunky ring with a patchy surface of dark brown and pale grey streaks. The inner edge is rough and cracked in texture, and the outline leans slightly oval with a bulge on the right. It is 0.5 inches deep and 4 in diameter.

Rough hewn and rather comfortable about it.