Medicine
37-22-249B
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 37-22-249B |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Sherbro |
| Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Plant Material |
| Description | The ngiti wuli is boiled with water in a pot and the affected parts steamed over it. Tthayung leaves are ground up and rubbed on the affected parts. The roots of wono ndompawm are boiled with water and given to the patient to drink. |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number | 207 - Collector Number |
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