Medicine
37-22-226A
From: Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island
Curatorial Section: African
| Object Number | 37-22-226A |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Sherbro |
| Provenience | Sierra Leone | Sherbro Island |
| Section | African |
| Materials | Wood |
| Description | Suspended from a stick in the plantation to protect the crops. Causes the lower leg to become compressed from side to side, so that the shin "looks like a machet [machete]". |
| Credit Line | Expedition to Sierra Leone, West Africa; Henry Usher Hall, 1937 |
| Other Number | 217 - Collector Number |
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