Medicine Bundle
37-22-208A
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island | Balolo (Sierra Leone)
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 37-22-208A |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Sherbro |
| Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island | Balolo (Sierra Leone) |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Leaf |
| Description | To protect plantations. A funnel made of Kising leaf is tied to a stick which is planted in the ground of the farm. A person "affected" by the medicine gets crawcraw, a kind of itch which develops into ulcers. Leaves of the same plant are pounded with clay in a mortar and rubbed on the sores as an antidote. See itu kerosene and wus sekel. (37-22-206, 204) |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number | 193 - Collector Number |
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