Medicine Bundle
37-22-238
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island
Curatorial Section: African
Object Number | 37-22-238 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Sherbro |
Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island |
Section | African |
Materials | Leaf |
Description | Snail shell and fragment of flower. The snail shell is the container for a potent medicine of the Kondo Society, for which there is said to be no antidote. For employment, cf. sitaba (37-22-227). |
Length | 10.5 cm |
Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
Other Number | 136 - Collector Number | 180 - Other Number |
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