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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