Rattle
37-22-287
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island | Movaudi
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 37-22-287 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Sherbro |
| Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island | Movaudi |
| Culture Area | West Africa |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Gourd | Fiber | Seeds |
| Description | A gourd, emptied and dried, around which are looped strings of seeds of a plant, tengben. The strings are alternately held loose and jerked tight to produce the sharp rhythmic crash of the seeds against the gourd which marks, together with a pair of small drums, the tempo of the Bondo Society dances. |
| Length | 67 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 14 cm |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number | 17 - Collector Number | I-444 uncertain - Seder Number |
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