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37-22-230A

From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island

Curatorial Section: African

Object Number 37-22-230A
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Sherbro
Provenience Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island
Section African
Materials Stone | Leaf
Description

Protects plantations. Bundle of pebbles. They are heated in a fire, cooled, and tied up in banana leaves, and hung on a stick in the plantation. A thief's eyes become inflamed; he becomes permanently blind if not treated in time.

Credit Line Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937
Other Number 164 - Collector Number

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