Medicine Bundle

37-22-305B

From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island

Curatorial Section: African

Object Number 37-22-305B
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Sherbro
Provenience Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island
Section African
Materials Leaf
Description

Antidote: leaves of bok tampil ground and rubbed on eyes. Some of the leaves boiled and the patient's eyes steamed over the "country pot" in which the leaves are boiling.

Credit Line Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937
Other Number 248 - Collector Number

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