Small Leffah (Basket)

Unidentified maker (Sierra Leone)

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1970

Basketry

Overall: 5 5/16 in. (13.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase

170.30.25024

Geography

Place Made: Freetown, Sierra Leone, Western Africa, Africa

Period

20th century

Object Name

Basket

Research Area

Africa

Not on view

Provenance

Purchased by Stewart G. Rosenblum, Class of 1970, for the Dartmouth College Museum, 1970.

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