Funnel
37-22-104
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island | Bachalo
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 37-22-104 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Sherbro |
| Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island | Bachalo |
| Locus | Near Trisana |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Fiber | Wood |
| Description | This is a model. Funnels of a larger size, similarly made of sticks held together with hoops of flexible twigs and lined with palm leaflets and coated inside with clay in which the edge of the circular grid [strainer proper] is embedded are used for sifting the sand containing sea salt. The sand is boiled in seawater, which is then evaporated, leaving a precipitation of salt. |
| Height | 35 cm |
| Depth | 43 cm |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number | 279 - Collector Number |
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