Sculpture

37-22-284

From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island | Yoni

Curatorial Section: African

Object Number 37-22-284
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Sherbro
Provenience Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island | Yoni
Section African
Materials Wood
Iconography Animal
Description

Colored blue-green and red-yellow. Long muzzle, showing formidable teeth; crest and mane. Perhaps a monkey. Stands on a rounded pedestal, excavated from back. The hollow pedestal is intended to contain "bad medicine." If placed by the owner at the side of the road, the landa will point to the place in the bush where the owner's intended victim, aware of pursuit, is hiding. If the latter does not show himself, he will be "affected" by the medicine and die.

Height 30 cm
Credit Line Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937
Other Number 83 - Collector Number

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