Medicine

37-22-224

From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island

Curatorial Section: African

Object Number 37-22-224
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island
Section African
Materials Leaf
Description

A yambo antidote against the bite of a nonggoma. See bangge bok (37-22-207), pawm pele (37-22-216), etc. Leaves of nui tthi kel [ears of monkey] are ground up and rubbed on the wound. Kottha samba leaves are heated and tied over the wound.

Credit Line Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937
Other Number 185 - Collector Number

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