Bender-Gestalt Performance of Sierra Leone, West African Children from Four Sub-Cultures:

Summary.-The quality of the Bender-Gestalt performance of 72 normal class-six Sierra Leone, West African children, representing four sub-cultures with varying degrees of modernization, was investigated. The quality of the Bender reproductions of the most modernized sub-culmre was significantly higher than that of the remaining three subculmres. Over-all, boys' Bender performances were of significantly higher quality than the girls' Bender performances. The interaction of gender and sub-culture was significant only for the two village sub-cultures, insofar as the girls produced pcorer quality protocols than did the boys. This result parallels the gender division of labor in adulthood in village life.