Medicine Bundle
37-22-302
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island | Yawni
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 37-22-302 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Sherbro | Bolom |
| Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island | Yawni |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Bark | Wood | Leaf |
| Iconography | Leprosy Cure |
| Description | 1. pot in which infusion of kawttha bonda (bonda bark) is boiling is places near patient; largecloth covers patient and pot. After being steamed, he is washed with the liquid. 2. Batthang leaves ar pounded in a mortar with white clay. Mixture rubbed on patient's body. 3. Sections of scraped toots of rasa tree boiled with lime (rokos) leaves; mixture given to patient to drink. |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number | 241 - Collector Number |
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