Medicine
37-22-224
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 37-22-224 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Leaf |
| Description | A yambo antidote against the bite of a nonggoma. See bangge bok (37-22-207), pawm pele (37-22-216), etc. Leaves of nui tthi kel [ears of monkey] are ground up and rubbed on the wound. Kottha samba leaves are heated and tied over the wound. |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number | 185 - Collector Number |
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