Hammock
| Object Number: | 37-22-59 |
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| Current Location: | Collections Storage |
| Culture: | Mendi |
| Provenience: | Sierra Leone Sherbro Island |
| Section: | African |
| Materials: | Cotton |
| Length: | 265 cm |
| Width: | 56 cm |
| Credit Line: | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number: | 66 - Collector Number |
Description
The ground is of the natural light colour of the fibre. Designs include: [drawings on card, see photo]. Bands of black and white between bands of blue; a chequer of black and white squares each outlined on two sides with a red line. This is the kind of hammock used mainly by native chiefs and Europeans for travelling. It is hung from a canopy fitted with two poles, which are supported on the heads of four bearers, two at each end.
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