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Slingshot - Baule People -Ivory Coast
Price: $195.00
8" x 2.75" x 2.5" - on stand it is 10" high.
Sling shots or catapults were used
amongst the Baule people to hunt fruit
bats which were considered a delicacy.
Today, children use the slingshots to
scare birds away so they don’t eat the
family’s ripening millet stalks. For play,
it is used to see who can hit the farthest
milk can.
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