Medicine
37-22-232
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island
Curatorial Section: African
Object Number | 37-22-232 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Sherbro |
Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island |
Section | African |
Materials | Leaf |
Description | A Yambo medicine against bite of ra: see sitaba (37-22-227), etc. Chow leaves of bel tampel while sucking wound. Boil leaves and bark of pel in earthenware pot, steam wound over it. Apply young pel leaves, ground, to wound. |
Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
Other Number | 118 - Collector Number |
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