Medicine Bundle
37-22-303A
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island | Bawngge
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 37-22-303A |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Sherbro | Bolom |
| Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island | Bawngge |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Coal |
| Iconography | Trespasser Curse |
| Description | A coal (Ningga) is placed in a cleft stick which is stuck in the ground in a plantation. A trespasser's throat becomes congested; he cannot swallow. (See Antidote - 37-22-303B) |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number | 243 - Collector Number |
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