Mask

37-22-270

From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island | Gambia

Curatorial Section: African

Object Number 37-22-270
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Sherbro
Provenience Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island | Gambia
Locus Ndema Chiefdom
Section African
Materials Wood
Description

Min Bondo Le. Wooden. The face is markedly angular in outline, the face proper much compressed. The top of the coiffure is flat and surmounted by four curved legs supporting a three-stepped rectangular device. Three complete neck rings. See Min Bondo le [37-22-268, 269].

Height 45.5 cm
Credit Line Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937
Other Number 282 - Collector Number

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