Catalogue card for Z 12179 [.1-2]: 'Snake medicine, eaten after snake bite or before going into the bush (large shell) (olumu gbenpia). [different hand] The "snake medicine" seems to have been kept in the shell. [additional different hand] It is contained in a separate bottle which fits into the shell'
Rachel Hand, description for Z 12179 [.1-2]: 'Shell is coated with black substance, ?mud, with loop of plant fibre threaded through hole in side of shell. Bottle contains solidified black substance'
Olumu gbepia. Medicine in the form of a large shell, with an unknown dark substance inside and coating the exterior. There is also a fibre loop threaded through the side of the shell. Recorded by the Collector as medicine to eat after snake bite.
Olumu gbepia. Medicine in the form of a large shell, with an unknown dark substance inside and coating the exterior. There is also a fibre loop threaded through the side of the shell. Recorded by the Collector as medicine to eat after snake bite.
The shell and bottle shared the record accession number: Z 12179. They also share the Thomas number: 170 and are thus understood as being associated objects. It was decided that the record should be split, with both objects being assigned different suffixes: Z 12179.1 and Z 12179.2.