| Title | Pyrography art |
| Alternate Title | Wood-burned art |
| Date | 2008 |
| Material Type | Pyrography
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| Description | Pyrographic image of a woman carrying a basket of fruit and a child. Reads "Mama Salone" an affectionate term sometimes used in place of "Sierra Leone." Origin Freetown. |
| Dimensions | Length: 56 cm; Width: 17 cm |
| Subject | Art objects -- Sierra Leone
Baskets in art
Children in art
Pyrography -- Sierra Leone
Women in art
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| Geographic Region | Africa, Sub-Saharan
Africa, West
Freetown (Sierra Leone)
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| Collector | Franks, Curtis J.
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| Collection in Repository | Fulbright-Hays Collection
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| Collection Note | In 2008, Curtis J. Franks travelled to West Africa as a participant in the Fulbright-Hays program under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Education to explore historical and cultural connections between people of African descent in the Lowcountry and Africans in the Mano River Region (Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and the Ivory Coast), where the artifacts in this collection were acquired. |
| Call Number | 2008.007.006 |
| Holding Institution | Avery Research Center at the College of Charleston
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| Digital Collection | Avery Research Center Artifact Collection
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| Rights | Digital image copyright 2010, The College of Charleston Libraries. All rights reserved. For more information contact The College of Charleston Library, Charleston, SC 29424. |
| Media Type | Objects |
