Bag
37-22-144
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island | Shengge
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 37-22-144 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Sherbro |
| Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island | Shengge |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Raffia |
| Description | Covered thickly with loose strips of raphia palm leaflets. The covering is a protection from rain and also serves to conceal what is carried in the net. The Poro Society min =[spirit, really a wooden trumpet] is said to be carried sometimes in a bag like this, to hide it from the eyes of the uninitiated. |
| Length | 74 cm |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number | unknown - Collector Number |
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