Bracelet
37-22-159C
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 37-22-159C |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Sherbro |
| Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Fiber |
| Description | Worn by Boi Soko. On her husband's death, her hair was cut short or shaved and these ornaments assumed. The hair was placed in a bundle made of the hair of near blood relations of the deceased, beside his grave. Desides the widow, some of the nearest of such relatives may also wear similar ornaments. |
| Length | 26 cm |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number | 24 - Collector Number |
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