Whip
37-22-21
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 37-22-21 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Sherbro |
| Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Fiber | Wood |
| Description | The short wooden handle is covered with basketwork of raphia fibre. The two lashes are plaited from cord of the same material. The whip ordeal is employed in the detection of criminals. Carried by an assistant of the Ttheng No (diviner), it directs the former to the culprit and compels him, by violent involuntary movements of him arm, to administer a sound thrashing to this person, whose guilt is thus disclosed and punished. |
| Length | 80 cm |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number | 124 - Collector Number |
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