Booyeh (net-weaving needles)

Unidentified maker (Sierra Leone)

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1970

Wood

Overall: 7 11/16 × 9/16 in. (19.5 × 1.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Museum Purchase

170.30.25045

Geography

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

Period

20th century

Object Name

Tools and Equipment: Hunting and Fishing

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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