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37-22-134
From: Sierra Leone | Shengge
Curatorial Section: African
Object Number | 37-22-134 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Provenience | Sierra Leone | Shengge |
Section | African |
Materials | Plant Fiber |
Technique | Basketry |
Description | Jar-shaped. Quadrangular bottom; rounding off to circular rim [twined]. Wicker and twill. Of the type in which the "medicine" of the Himoi or Humoi Society is kept. It is a "purification" society. It washes with its "medicine" persons who are guilty of certain offences and the "bush" in which the offences have been committed. |
Height | 35.5 cm |
Length | 20.5 cm |
Width | 20.5 cm |
Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
Other Number | unknown - Collector Number |
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