M0008146: Trepanning instruments used by the Kabyle people

Date:: October 1941

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/70/78

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Wellcome Trust Corporate ArchiveWT
- Direct activitiesWT/D
  - Library and MuseumWT/D/1
    - Images from the photographic libraryWT/D/1/20
      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0008095-M0008168WT/D/1/20/1/70
        M0008146: Trepanning instruments used by the Kabyle peopleWT/D/1/20/1/70/78

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Also known as

Previous title, replaced September 2020: African surgical instruments, Trepanning instruments.

Description

Display of trepanning instruments including forceps and knives. The instruments were used by the Kabyle people, a Berber people indigenous to north Algeria. The instruments were acquired and put on display in the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, but are not held by Wellcome Collection.

Publication/Creation

October 1941

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 2020.

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