Medicine Bundle
37-22-227B
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island
Curatorial Section: African
Object Number | 37-22-227B |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Sherbro |
Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island |
Section | African |
Materials | Leaf |
Description | If a Yambo man is not near, the victim dies. If one is at hand, and willing, he sucks the puncture in the customary way (see pawm pele, 37-22-216), then takes leaves of gbange bok, grinds them on a stone and rubs the wounds with them. A strip of sempleng bark or an oil palm leaflet is knotted in four places and tied tightly above the wound. See 37-22-223 (kpakpa), etc.; cf. also kondo (37-22-238). |
Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
Other Number | 180 - Collector Number |
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