Antidote
37-22-306B
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 37-22-306B |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Sherbro |
| Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Cowrie | Leaf |
| Description | An infusion of tthe leaves is used to steam the sore, and then to wash. A paste of burnt and powedered pawpaw leaves mixed with palm oil is then rubbed on the sore. |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number | 259 - Collector Number |
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