Medicine

37-22-219B

From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island

Curatorial Section: African

Object Number 37-22-219B
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island
Section African
Materials Plant Material
Description

Antidote: Leaves of ttboth crushed in water and given to patient to drink. Roots of tshok and of ku cut up and boiled in earthenware pot and given to patient to drink.

Credit Line Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937
Other Number 233 - Collector Number

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