Medicine
37-22-226B
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 37-22-226B |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Sherbro |
| Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Leaf | Pods |
| Description | Leaves of sanggla and of gbal are boiled together and applied warm to the leg. Leaves of kottha samba are heated and placed on it. It is then rubbed with ground ke leaves. |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number | 218 - Collector Number | 1941 - Other Number |
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