Medicine Bundle

37-22-303A

From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island | Bawngge

Curatorial Section: African

Object Number 37-22-303A
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Sherbro | Bolom
Provenience Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island | Bawngge
Section African
Materials Coal
Iconography Trespasser Curse
Description

A coal (Ningga) is placed in a cleft stick which is stuck in the ground in a plantation. A trespasser's throat becomes congested; he cannot swallow. (See Antidote - 37-22-303B)

Credit Line Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937
Other Number 243 - Collector Number

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