Leather Sebe
A leather charm/amulet, or sebe/sebbeh: the Mende and Temne name for charm/amulet. It consists of a square leather pad, with two loops and three leather beads attached to the top, and a tooth mounted in leather. These are suspended on a plaited leather chord with a plaited knob at each end.
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Further Information
- Type: Religious/ritual equipment, charms
- Object: Leather Sebe
- Materials: Leather, animal skin, Bone, ivory, tooth
- Culture Group: Mende
- Dimensions: 345mm x 90mm x 31mm
- Production Date: Pre 1892
- Associated Places: Unknown
- Associated People: Thomas Joshua Alldridge (Collector)
- Museum: Brighton Museum and Art Gallery
- Accession Number: BMAG:R3483/51
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