Rattle
| Object Number: | 37-22-287 |
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| Current Location: | Collections Storage |
| Culture: | Sherbro |
| Provenience: | Sierra Leone Sherbro Island Movaudi |
| Culture Area: | West Africa |
| Section: | African |
| Materials: | Gourd Fiber Seeds |
| Length: | 67 cm |
| Outside Diameter: | 14 cm |
| Credit Line: | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number: | 17 - Collector Number I-444 uncertain - Seder Number |
Description
A gourd, emptied and dried, around which are looped strings of seeds of a plant, tengben. The strings are alternately held loose and jerked tight to produce the sharp rhythmic crash of the seeds against the gourd which marks, together with a pair of small drums, the tempo of the Bondo Society dances.
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