Gong, Tortoise Shell - 37-22-31B | Collections

Object Number:	37-22-31B
Current Location:	Collections Storage
Provenience:	Sierra Leone Sherbro Island Yoni
Section:	African
Materials:	Turtle Shell Wood Fiber
Height:	7.5 cm
Length:	56 cm
Width:	36 cm
Credit Line:	Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937
Other Number:	128 - Collector Number

Description

The kontto is beaten like a gong to summon the members of the Poro Society, or by the attendants of a Poro official when he appears in public in his official character. The ordinary expression for tortoise shell is konggo [ tortoise] bawk [shell]. Cf. 37-22-31A.1 and 37-22-37A.2

Current & Past Exhibitions:

Fourteen Eyes in a Museum Storeroom (05 Feb 1952 - 31 Mar 1952)

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Bibliography:

[Article] The University Museum. "Fourteen Eyes in a Museum Storeroom". The University Museum Bulletin. Philadelphia. The University Museum. Vol. 16. no. 3. Actual Citation : Page/Fig./Plate: pp. 44-45