Spinning Top String
37-22-198B
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 37-22-198B |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Sherbro |
| Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island |
| Locus | Sitia Chiefdom | Yoni |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Fiber |
| Description | Made from a nut, like 37-22-197 but larger. The wooden handle and peg are inserted in holes and held in place by a resinous substance. The sound produced by the spinning top, resembles that made by the whistle, 37-22-197; hence the same name. Each end of the string is passed through a hole in a short piece of wood and knotted to keep these on the string. The nut has three perforations round the circumference. |
| Height | 14.2 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 7.49 cm |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number | 106 - Collector Number |
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