Stories
- Article
Yoga adapts to time and place
A yoga teacher in 1930s India inspired today’s transnational practice with his spectacular fusion of tradition and innovation.
- Book extract
Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
- Book extract
Eating their own kind
In his grisly history of cannibalism, zoologist Bill Schutt asks what drives an animal to feast on its own flesh and blood.
- Article
Performance art, frozen in time
For over a year, live performance art with an audience present has been largely impossible. But still images continue to allow artists in this sphere to inspire audiences at home.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
M0000064: side view of a carved bowl for receiving the afterbirth, Maori, New Zealand.
Date: 25 June 1929Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/2/62Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
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M0000065: bottom view of a carved bowl for receiving the afterbirth, Maori, New Zealand.
Date: 25 June 1929Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/2/63Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive