Spoon
Lid
37-22-86B
Location: On Display in the Africa Galleries
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 37-22-86B |
| Current Location | Africa Galleries - On Display |
| Culture | Sudanese |
| Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Silver |
| Description | The horn has a collar and lid of chased silver. From a ring in the middle of the lid hangs a silver snuff spoon. The horn was made on the Kittim River, by relative of Bia Bete's father and presented to the latter when he became Paramount Chief of Ndema. |
| Length | 18 cm |
| Width | 2 cm |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number | 270 - Collector Number |
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