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Carrying Stick

Object Number:37-22-4
Current Location: Collections Storage
Culture:Sherbro
Provenience: Sierra Leone
Sherbro Island
Sitia Chiefdom
Yoni
Section:African
Materials:Wood
Height: 46 cm
Credit Line:Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937
Other Number:285 - Collector Number

Description

Girl's head at each end; middle carved like lower part of 37-22-7. Called Soko No, either as being the property of a Poro Society Soko or because the heads represent a Bundu Society Soko. Soko=adept. Wooden.

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