Medicine
37-22-245B
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 37-22-245B |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Sherbro |
| Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Leaf |
| Description | Cold water is poured on the isung in the evening. Next morning the patient is taken to it, and some of the wet earth rubbed on the affected parts. These are then steamed over a pot in which the isung is being boiled in water. Leaves of the cotton plant are ground and rubbed on the swelling. |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number | 192 - Collector Number | 110 - Other Number |
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