Carrying Stick
37-22-8
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island | Sitia Chiefdom | Yoni
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 37-22-8 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Mendi |
| Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island | Sitia Chiefdom | Yoni |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Wood |
| Description | At each end a truncated cone surmounts a cylinder carved with small antelope horns in relief. At one end cowries between the horns. This is followed, in the direction of the middle, by a segment, on each side of the middle, carved a jour to leave an egg-shaped piece of the wood withing four bars. The middle is a plain cylinder between two spool-like segments. Cf 37-22-7, 4, 5. Wooden. |
| Height | 50.5 cm |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number | 8 - Collector Number |
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