Leather Sebe Necklace
A neck ornament with a leather charm/amulet, or sebe/sebbeh: the Mende and Temne name for charm/amulet. It is made from Mandingo leatherwork, which is traditionally associated with Muslim elites in the North of Sierra Leone. Their are four sebe attached to a black leather chord; the two larger leather rectangular boxes have a tooled flower design. Sebe/sebbeh, like these, usually contain Quranic scripts.
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- Type: Body adornment, jewellery
- Object: Leather Sebe Necklace
- Materials: Leather, animal skin
- Culture Group: Mandingo
- Dimensions: 290mm [L] x 90mm [W]
- Production Date: Pre 1901
- Associated Places: Unknown
- Associated People: Thomas Joshua Alldridge (Collector)
- Museum: British Museum
- Accession Number: BM:Af.1901.419.1.a
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