Bowl
37-22-48
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 37-22-48 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Sherbro |
| Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Shell |
| Description | See 37-22-38. These shells are also used in making palm oil, for skimming the oil off the surface of the water in which the pounded pericarp of the palm nuts is washed and squeezed. |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number | 4 - Collector Number |
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