Medicine
37-22-234
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 37-22-234 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Sherbro |
| Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Turtle Shell |
| Description | Forward portion of under part of carapace of tortoise. Protects plantations; causes colic. See itu kerosene (37-22-206), etc. |
| Length | 8.7 cm |
| Width | 5.6 cm |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number | 88 - Collector Number |
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