[Cleft stick, Gebel Moya]

Date:
1910-1914
Reference:
WA/HSW/OB/B.15
Part of:
Personal papers of Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853-1936)
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Contains: 2 images

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Credit

[Cleft stick, Gebel Moya]. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Cleft stick with handwritten label 'Method employed by native messengers carrying across the desert, and the way in which Mr Wellcome received hand-messages at his archaeological expedition camp in the Sudan, Africa'. The label was likely suggested interpretation for display in the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. An envelope labelling the item from Henry Wellcome is held between the stick.

Publication/Creation

1910-1914

Physical description

1 object and 2 labels

Acquisition note

HSW

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