M0005698: Two young women from the west coast of India wearing earrings

Date:
23 September 1938
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/47/8
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M0005698: Two young women from the west coast of India wearing earrings. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced November 2021: Girls wearing earrings, Thears?, west coast, below Kozhikode, India

Description

Photograph of two young women, one seated, wearing earrings. The women come from the west coast of India, below Kozhikode (Calicut). A copy of the photograph was created by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1938 (accession number PHO 10882).

Publication/Creation

23 September 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.

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