Statuette

37-22-279

From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island | Bawngge

Curatorial Section: African

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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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