Mat
37-22-225A
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 37-22-225A |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Sherbro |
| Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Plant Material |
| Description | a: A small mat (banggba) has a piece of gbengbe, a withe, tied to it. The ashes of tshala leaves are mixed with red palm oil and smeared on it; a piece of kola nut is chewed and the juice mixed with saliva is squirted over it. |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number | 189 - Collector Number |
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