Medicine
37-22-207
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island | Balolo (Sierra Leone)
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 37-22-207 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Sherbro |
| Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island | Balolo (Sierra Leone) |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Leaf |
| Description | Leaves of kent and of bangge bok. Antidote for the venom of the snake buluk. The Yambo [Mendi, Dzambo] Society is composed of snake charmers and others who possess "medicine" by means of which snakes are made to strike people, and who have also antidotes for snake-bite. |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number | 183 - Collector Number |
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