Medicine Bundle
37-22-246A
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 37-22-246A |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Sherbro |
| Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Stem | Fiber | Leaf |
| Description | Basketwork tray containing rice chaff (iho, chaff, pele, rice) and tthotth leaves. Protects plantations. Causes swelling of the neck and throat; if the culprit tries to swallow water, it gushes from his nostrils. |
| Length | 12 cm |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number | 201 - Collector Number |
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