Medicine

37-22-300A

From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island | Yawni

Curatorial Section: African

Object Number 37-22-300A
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Sherbro
Provenience Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island | Yawni
Section African
Materials Leaf
Description

Squirrel medicine [ Nroma ba]. Leaves and stalks of komplong. Protects plantations. If pregnant woman trespasses, her child when born will have convulsions.

Credit Line Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937
Other Number 328 - Collector Number

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