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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