Mortar

Object Number:

37-22-83

Current Location:

Collections storage

Culture:

Sherbro

Provenience:

Sierra Leone
Sherbro Island
Sitia Chiefdom
Yoni

Section:

African

Materials:

Wood

Description:

Carved from one piece of wood. Three "columns", carved free, ascend from a wide base to a collar near the top. Columns and collar are carved to represent, apparently, pieces of rope. Tobacco leaf is pounded in these mortars to make snuff. See 37-22-84. Wooden. Made by woodcarver, Lehai [Mendi?], of Motshatsh.

Credit Line:

Museum Expedition to Sierra Leone, 1936-1937; Henry Usher Hall

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