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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