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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