Bracelet
37-22-161
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island | Yoni
Curatorial Section: African
Object Number | 37-22-161 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Sherbro |
Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island | Yoni |
Section | African |
Materials | Fiber | Grass |
Description | Of narrow strips of raphia leaf, dyed dark brown, wound upon a splint of raphia leaf midrib with interwoven pattern of lozenges and chevrons in undyed raphia leaf strips. Gbeng= bangle, letul= raphia. See 37-22-160, 162. |
Outside Diameter | 8 cm |
Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
Other Number | 60 - Collector Number |
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