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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