Headdress

37-22-148

From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island

Curatorial Section: African

Object Number 37-22-148
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Sherbro
Provenience Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island
Section African
Materials Plant Fiber
Description

Made of plaited raphia fibres, dyed black, with a topknot, three long pendant tresses at each side and a short one at the back. Representing a woman's coiffure.

Credit Line Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937
Other Number 261 - Collector Number

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