Polychrome dance-wand with four pyroengraved gourds [SM 27/02/2008]

Collection type: Object
Description: Polychrome dance-wand with four pyroengraved gourds [SM 27/02/2008]
Long description: Multicoloured dance-wand used at a circumcision ceremony in 1984. Consists in three (bamboo?) sticks, the ends of two of which have been bent to form two closed circles at the top, the whole wrapped in multicoloured cottons. Hanging from the each of the two circles are two rattles, consisting in pyroengraved half gourds to which strings of plastic, metal and shell beads, as well as a metal bell, have been attached. The donor was High Commissioner in The Gambia from 1981 to 1984. [JC 7 1995]
Geographical reference: Gambia
Africa > Western Africa > Gambia; Georgetown
Cultural groups: Mandinka
Person: Field collector David Francis Battye Le Breton; PRM source David Francis Battye Le Breton
Date / Period: Date made: Before 1984
Date collected: July 1984
Acquisition information: Donated: 10/1994
Materials and processes: Material Wood Plant, Material Textile, Material Gourd Plant, Material Bead, Material Shell, Process Bent, Process Pyroengraved Pokerwork, Process Wound, Process Woven, Process Hollowed, Process Strung
Dimensions: Width: max 223 mm, Length: max 800 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1994.49.2

Search