Carrying Stick

37-22-4

From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island | Sitia Chiefdom | Yoni

Curatorial Section: African

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Object Number 37-22-4
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Sherbro
Provenience Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island | Sitia Chiefdom | Yoni
Section African
Materials Wood
Description

Girl's head at each end; middle carved like lower part of 37-22-7. Called Soko No, either as being the property of a Poro Society Soko or because the heads represent a Bundu Society Soko. Soko=adept. Wooden.

Height 46 cm
Credit Line Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937
Other Number 285 - Collector Number

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