Humming Top - 37-22-198A | Collections

Object Number:	37-22-198A
Current Location:	Collections Storage
Culture:	Sherbro
Provenience:	Sierra Leone Sherbro Island
Locus:	Sitia Chiefdom Yoni
Section:	African
Materials:	Nuts Wood Fiber
Height:	14.2 cm
Outside Diameter:	7.5 cm
Credit Line:	Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937
Other Number:	106 - Collector Number

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.