Carrying Stick
37-22-5
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island | Bawngge
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 37-22-5 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Sherbro |
| Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island | Bawngge |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Wood |
| Description | Head carved to represent woman's coiffure; butt carved into a ball; middle portion, like a spool between two segments each carved a jour to leave four bars. Cf. 37-22-2, 4, 8. Wooden. |
| Height | 48 cm |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number | 242 - Collector Number |
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