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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