M0008701: Kundaite, a witch finder

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Kundaite, a witch finder and a Kundaite

Two photographs of a man named Kundaite, a witch finder on Simbo, an island in the Solomon Islands previously known to Europeans as Eddystone Island. The photographs are reproduced as figures 1 and 2 in Hocart, A. M. “Medicine and Witchcraft in Eddystone of the Solomons.” The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. 55, 1925, pp. 229–270. Related images: M0008701

1942

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

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.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.