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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Further Information

• 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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