Medicine
37-22-241A
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 37-22-241A |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Sherbro |
| Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Earth |
| Description | Botthi= lump; potth= earth. Oblong, rounded, pierced lengthwise for string by which to suspend it in plantation. Protects crop. Causes swelling of legs or jaw. |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number | 224 - Collector Number |
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