Medicine Bundle
37-22-301
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island | Yawni
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 37-22-301 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Sherbro | Bolom |
| Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island | Yawni |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Leaf |
| Iconography | Love Potion |
| Description | leaves of the mbelma tampil (mbelma = palm nuts, tampil = hawk) ground up with red pepper and sprinkled on the doorsill of a house where a woman lives, to cause her to leave her lover or husband. What is left of the powder is sprinkled on water. This dilutes the strength of the pepper, after she has quarrelled with her partner, and softens her heart so that she will come to you. |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number | 240 - Collector Number |
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