Medicine Bundle
37-22-213
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island | Balolo (Sierra Leone)
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 37-22-213 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Sherbro |
| Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island | Balolo (Sierra Leone) |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Leaf |
| Description | Remedy for the bite of this snake. Leaves of tshalben are boiled in an earthenware pot and the puncture held over the steam. Leaves of bok kin are ground in a mortar and rubbed on the place. See bangge bok, 37-22-207. |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number | 184 - Collector Number |
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