Drying Rack
37-22-101
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island | Sitia Chiefdom
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 37-22-101 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Sherbro |
| Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island | Sitia Chiefdom |
| Locus | Tshokolo | near Yoni |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Stem | Fiber |
| Description | Grid made from splints of raphia palm leaf midribs twined with similar stiff material. The palm nuts are rolled on this grid, after having been spread out and exposed to the sun for a day or two, to soften and loosen up the pericarp before the nuts are boiled. |
| Length | 100 cm |
| Width | 73 cm |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number | 54 - Collector Number |
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