Medicine Bundle
37-22-305A
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 37-22-305A |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Sherbro |
| Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Cowrie | Seed |
| Description | 2 cowries hung in a plantation after a kola nut has been chewed and the juice squirted on them. A trespasser's eyes will leave their sockets and hang down on the cheeks. |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number | 247 - Collector Number |
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