Medicine Bundle
37-22-247B
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 37-22-247B |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Sherbro |
| Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Leaf |
| Description | Gonggo leaves are ground and rubbed on the patient's chest. The hol bom is placed in a bowl of water to which are added sabe leaves, and the patient drinks this. |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number | 200 - Collector Number |
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