Broom
37-22-23
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 37-22-23 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Sherbro |
| Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Fiber |
| Description | Made from 4 midribs of the leaflets of the raphia palm, held together at one end by an ornamental lashing, dyed dark brown and red-brown, of strips of the leaflets [Cf. 37-22-22]. See also 37-22-286. Such brooms are carried as a symbol of their rank by adepts [Soko] of the Poro Society. |
| Length | 62 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 4.2 cm |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number | 323 - Collector Number |
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