Mann’s Samburu Museum of the rare and practical

The Samburr, a woman’s bag from the Samburu tribe used for storing personal possessions. PHOTO | FRANK WHALLEY | NATION

One of the rarest of all Samburu objects — one believed to have given the community its name — is now on permanent exhibition in an East African school.

Called a samburr, it is a woman’s bag used for storing personal possessions while similar bags are used by warriors for carrying honey from the hive.