Bracelet

37-22-161

From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island | Yoni

Curatorial Section: African

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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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