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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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