Cooking Utensil
37-22-102
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island | Sitia Chiefdom | Yoni
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 37-22-102 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Sherbro |
| Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island | Sitia Chiefdom | Yoni |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Fiber | Wood |
| Description | Spider-web-like arrangement of raphia or oil palm leaf fibre cords attached to a wooden hoop. Used for skimming off the fibrous pericarp of the palm nuts which has become detached from the kernels when the nuts are washed and squeezed in a canoe filled with water, after they have been boiled. |
| Outside Diameter | 22 cm |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number | 48 - Collector Number |
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