Flywhisk
37-22-24
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 37-22-24 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Sherbro |
| Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Hair | Bone |
| Description | The handle is said to be made from the vertebrae of a large fish; the whisk from a cow's tail. |
| Length | 11.5 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 3.3 cm |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number | 310 - Collector Number |
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