Antidote
37-22-304B
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island | Bawngge
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 37-22-304B |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Sherbro | Bolom |
| Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island | Bawngge |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Leaf | Nuts |
| Iconography | Trespasser Curse |
| Description | B: (Antidote) Leaves of niam ke (snake's poison; ke = snake) are ground and rubbed on the patient's forehead. Some of the leaves are crushed in the hands with a little water, placed in a leaf funnel, which is squeezed so that some of the moisture drips into the patient's nostrils and on tp the crown of his hand. As usual, this must be done in the presence of the original medicine. |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number | 246 - Collector Number |
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