Medicine Bundle

37-22-221B

From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island

Curatorial Section: African

Object Number 37-22-221B
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Sherbro
Provenience Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island
Section African
Materials Leaf
Description

Leaves of tthaiung warmed and placed on abdomen. Other leaves of same plant ground in mortar or on stone and rubbed on abdomen.

Credit Line Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937
Other Number 212 - Collector Number | 154 - Other Number

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