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Sierra Leone Tourism: Culture

Double Ended Drum This is a double ended drum with a carved design on the body, and animal skins stretched over each end. It is decorated with a pattern resembling leopard skin. The drum rattles when it is shaken.

Double Ended Drum

This is a double ended drum with a carved design on the body, and animal skins stretched over each end. It is decorated with a pattern resembling leopard skin. The drum rattles when it is shaken.

Reanimating Sierra Leone’s cultural heritage

(Source: sierraleoneheritage.org)

Limba Mask This mask is described by the Sierra Leone National Museum records as a Limba mask used “in ceremonial dances”.

Limba Mask

This mask is described by the Sierra Leone National Museum records as a Limba mask used “in ceremonial dances”.

Wooden Staff An elaborately carved wooden staff. The staff shaft is decorated by a snake coiled around it, carved in high relief. A small female figure is depicted sitting on the top end of the staff, with detailed painted in white.

Wooden Staff

An elaborately carved wooden staff. The staff shaft is decorated by a snake coiled around it, carved in high relief. A small female figure is depicted sitting on the top end of the staff, with detailed painted in white.