Medicine
37-22-249A
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 37-22-249A |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Sherbro |
| Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Plant Material |
| Description | Ngiti wuli grass placed in a cleft stick in plantation to protect crops. Causes a woman's breasts or a man's scrotum to rot. |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number | 207 - Collector Number |
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