Medicine
37-22-253
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 37-22-253 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Sherbro |
| Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Carnelian |
| Description | Carnelian bead. Protects the wearer from harm and brings good luck. Put in the pot in which "medicine" is being boiled, it adds to the potency of the "medicine". Tthinggo is the name of the bead; gbes= east. These beads are brought from "up the rivers". See 37-22-254. |
| Length | 3.1 cm |
| Outside Diameter | 1.1 cm |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number | 161 - Collector Number |
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