M0005321: Man swallowing a cane as part of a ritual, New Guinea.

Date:
November 1937
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/43/52
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M0005321: Man swallowing a cane as part of a ritual, New Guinea. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced November 2021: Durari native swallowing the cane, the Durari Ritual Cane

Description

Reproduction of a photograph of a man swallowing a cane as part of a ritual ceremony in which it is thrust down the throat as far as the stomach. From the Bena Bena tributary area of New Guinea. Published in an article by E. W. P. Chimmery in Man, vol.XXXIV, 1934

Publication/Creation

November 1937

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

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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