Pouch
37-22-146
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 37-22-146 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Sherbro |
| Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Leather | Fur |
| Description | The back and flap are made from the skin, cured with the hair on, of a small animal of the cat kind [tonggola]. Semicircular, roughly, in form, with a leather strap for suspension. This satchel was used for carrying a protective "medicine." |
| Width | 17 cm |
| Depth | 14 cm |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number | 95 - Collector Number |
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