Medicine
37-22-228A
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island | Yoni
Curatorial Section: African
Object Number | 37-22-228A |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Sherbro |
Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island | Yoni |
Section | African |
Materials | Nuts |
Description | Piece of palm nut "head" (fruit stalk with nuts). Placed on any object to prevent its being touched or stolen. It "seizses" the offender's heart. Cf. itu kerosene (37-22-206), wus sekel (37-22-204), gbattho (37-22-210). |
Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
Other Number | 150 - Collector Number |
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