Medicine
37-22-241B
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 37-22-241B |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Sherbro |
| Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Leaf |
| Description | Ground hele leaves rubbed on swelling. When treatment is completed, nkefe (pepper) leaves are crushed in water and the infusion sprinkled on the spot where the "medicine" was placed during treatment, to prevent anyone else being "affected". |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number | 225 - Collector Number |
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