Medicine
37-22-222B
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 37-22-222B |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Sherbro |
| Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Leaf |
| Description | b: Leaves of bok tampel are ground and rubbed on the parts affected. Leaves of nowa (cotton plant) warmed over a fire and placed on the affected parts. |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number | 205 - Collector Number |
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