Bellows
37-22-98
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 37-22-98 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Sherbro |
| Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Fiber | Skin | Iron |
| Description | Used in pairs. The skin coverings are caught up in each hand so as to close the opening, and moved up and down alternately to keep up a continous stream of air from the nozzles through the glowing charcoal of the forge of hearth. |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number | 131 - Collector Number |
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