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Object Number:37-22-275
Current Location: Collections Storage
Culture:Sherbro
Provenience: Sierra Leone
Sherbro Island
Shengge
Section:African
Materials:Wood
Height: 25 cm
Credit Line:Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937
Other Number:312 - Collector Number

Description

Kawpe. Wooden. In the general style of a Bondo head, with two conjoined lobes or crest on the top of the head. Face flat, reduced to simplest elements. "Medicine" marks on forehead and cheeks - crosses and vertical strokes. Four slightly indicated neck rings. Ngoloi. See 37-22-263. Cf. also 37-22-272, 283.

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