Bird Scarer

Sierra Leone National Museum
Freetown, Sierra Leone

This resembles a small balangi or xylophone, but was used to scare birds from rice fields. It is made of kapil wood and palm fibre, and called a Gbou Gbountibla in Temne.

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Details

Title: Bird Scarer
Location Created: Sierra Leone
Type: Musical instruments, Tools, implements
Original Source: Sierra Leone Heritage
Medium: Wood
Culture group: Temne
Accession number: SLNM.1964.03.01A

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