Object Number | 93-9-28 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Ghana |
Culture Area | West Africa |
Date Made | 1900-1971 |
Section | African |
Materials | Gourd | Metal | Snakeskin | String | Leather | Wood | Animal Hair |
Description | Snakeskin streched over gourd bowl (42 metal nails). Bowl has incised black abstraction. Hole in snakeskin off to side. Long stick, parts wrapped in leather, bisected with nail to keep from sliding. Decorated leather fringe at long end of stick. Boomerang-shaped piece of wood inside resonating chamber, hair attached to long stick. |
Length | 61 cm |
Width | 19 cm |
Depth | 10.5 cm |
Credit Line | Gift of Harvey and Doris Tower, 1993 |
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