Statuette
37-22-279
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island | Bawngge
Curatorial Section: African
Object Number | 37-22-279 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Sherbro | Bolom |
Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island | Bawngge |
Section | African |
Materials | Wood | Aluminum |
Iconography | Woman |
Description | Half-length figure of a girl carved in one piece with a shallow bowl from which the torso rises. The head is of the general type of the Bondo masks. The coiffure consists mainly of a triple crest flanked by two lobes. Round the base of this upper portion of the coiffure are looped two narrow strips of aluminum, meeting in front and behind. There are 3 uninterrupted "neck rings" (see 37-22-268). the arms are bent at the elbow, the hands (four-fingered) held against the midriff. Two trianglar pieces of aluminum are tied to the perforated ear lobes. A crescent-shaped piece of the same metal is fastened between the breasts. |
Height | 45 cm |
Outside Diameter | 22 cm |
Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
Other Number | 264 - Collector Number |
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