- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Whip with one lash.
- Long description
- Whip with one lash. The whip is made from cattle hide with a plaited hide lash and a skin handle. The end of the handle has a plaited hide section with a hide loop at the end of it. The whip can be hung up by this loop. [MdeA 24/11/99]
- Cultural groups
- Senufo
- Date / Period
- Date made: Circa 1999
- Date collected
- 1999
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 22/09/1999
- Materials and processes
- Material Cattle Skin Animal, Material Animal Hide Skin, Process Plaited, Process Stitched
- Dimensions
- Length 195 mm cow skin handle, Length: max 880 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1999.26.1 Other numbers: A
Search terms: Punishment and Torture, Marriage, Religion, Whip, Religious Object
Further items to explore
1884.52.1Bit, reins and whip. [L.Ph 'DCF 2004-2006 What's Upstairs?' 3/12/2004]1884.52.1
2012.19.8Leather whip.2012.19.8
1923.87.180.11Twisted string of undyed dressed flax fibre.1923.87.180.11
1944.5.15Whip with braided leather lash, wooden handle, wound with brass wire and lead plate. [MJD 16/11/2012]1944.5.15
1952.5.85Black wooden face mask, with elongated features and narrow eye-slits. There is linear, incised decoration on the surface and the tips of the horns are painted red. [BS [OPS Move] 5/9/2016]1952.5.85
1921.53.6.2Small bell-shaped hollow gong of sheet-iron with attached wooden striker [.1], carved in the form of an animal's head. Used in dances. [PB 28/1/2020]1921.53.6.2
1904.63.11Whistle1904.63.11
1938.34.269Wooden whistle, with 2 stops, one in either of the lateral projections. Suspended on leather thong1938.34.269