Medicine
37-22-244A
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 37-22-244A |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Sherbro |
| Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Leaf |
| Description | Leaves of boi bondoko placed in kola leaf funnel and hung up in plantation to protect crops. Causes swollen jaw (sum sohaw= crooked lip) or legs. |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number | 220 - Collector Number |
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