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Object Number:37-22-28
Current Location: Collections Storage
Culture:Sherbro
Provenience: Sierra Leone
Sherbro Island
Bawngge
Section:African
Materials:Wood
Aluminum
Technique:Inlaid
Iconography:Duck Head
Length: 9.5 cm
Credit Line:Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937
Other Number:251 - Collector Number

Description

This kind of duck is called bawtebawte. Eyes of aluminum, inlaid. A household ornament.

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