Antidote

37-22-251B

From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island

Curatorial Section: African

Object Number 37-22-251B
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Sherbro | Yoni
Provenience Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island
Section African
Materials Plant Material
Description

Card: "The horn is brought and hung about the patient's neck so as to rest on the seat of the pain. The seeds of a pod, sangg, are chewed and spat on this place. Leaves of butth are crushed and held in the hands of the healer. He places a hand with the leaf in it on each side of the patient's body and moves them apart stroking the body. This is done three times for a woman, four for a man. He speaks to the horn, 'If you are affecting this person, leave him.' "

Credit Line Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937
Other Number 118 - Collector Number

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