Hammock
37-22-59
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 37-22-59 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Mendi |
| Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Cotton |
| Description | The ground is of the natural light colour of the fibre. Designs include: [drawings on card, see photo]. Bands of black and white between bands of blue; a chequer of black and white squares each outlined on two sides with a red line. This is the kind of hammock used mainly by native chiefs and Europeans for travelling. It is hung from a canopy fitted with two poles, which are supported on the heads of four bearers, two at each end. |
| Length | 265 cm |
| Width | 56 cm |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number | 66 - Collector Number |
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