Sling
37-22-196
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 37-22-196 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Sherbro |
| Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Fiber | Stone |
| Description | Used with pebbles to bring down, or scare away, birds. A continuous "weft" of raphia twist carried over and under alternate strings of a continuously looped "warp" of the same material. |
| Length | 8 cm |
| Width | 8 cm |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number | 59 - Collector Number |
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