Medicine
37-22-289
From: Sierra Leone | Shengge
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 37-22-289 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Sherbro | Bolom |
| Provenience | Sierra Leone | Shengge |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Skin |
| Iconography | Skin of Pangolie |
| Description | These skins form an important part of the "medicine" of the Tthoma Society. A piece of the skin, hung up in a plantation, is an effective protection, against thieves, if the society has been paid the proper fee and the proper incantations have been pronounced over the "medicine". |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number | unknown - Collector Number |
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