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| Object Number: | 37-22-114 |
|---|---|
| Current Location: | Collections Storage |
| Culture: | Sherbro |
| Provenience: | Sierra Leone Sherbro Island |
| Locus: | Ndema Chiefdom Trisana |
| Section: | African |
| Materials: | Wicker |
| Height: | 13 cm |
| Outside Diameter: | 18 cm |
| Credit Line: | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number: | 286 - Collector Number |
Description
Cone-shaped. Wicker and twining. Yellow dye: see 37-22-62. The material used in basketwork is all provided by the raphia palm ["bamboo" palm]: strips from the leaflets, midribs of the leaflets, splints from the midribs of the whole leaf. In some cases these materials may be taken from the same parts of the oil palm.
Current & Past Exhibitions:
| African Gallery (1990 - Aug 1995) | View Objects in Exhibition |
| African Gallery ( Aug 1995 - 11 Sep 2018) | View Objects in Exhibition |
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