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M0005553: Illustrations of four fire making tools. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
M0005553: Illustrations of four fire making tools
- Date:
- 8 August 1938
- Reference:
- WT/D/1/20/1/45/65
- Part of:
- Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
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About this work
Also known as
Previous title, replaced November 2021: Illustrations including Bamboo fire implement and drill bored
Description
Reproduction of an illustration of four fire making tools from British New Guinea (now part of Papua New Guinea), Malaysia and Polynesia published in Frobenius, Leo: Childhood of man, London, 1909. A photograph of the illustrations was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1938 (accession number PHO 10845).
Publication/Creation
8 August 1938
Physical description
1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm
Notes
Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.
Terms of use
Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.
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Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed storesBy appointment Manual request