Medicine Bundle
37-22-227A
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 37-22-227A |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Sherbro |
| Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Leaf | Plant Material |
| Description | A Yambo "medicine". Section of withe, gbengbe, and a needle are rubbed with the ashes of sempleng leaves, and placed together beside a road where the victim will pass. The latter's name is pronounced over the "medicine". When he passes, the withe changes into a sitaba and strikes. |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number | 179 - Collector Number |
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