M0012588: Maasai woman

Previous title, replaced August 2022: Artificial deformation, Masai woman wearing heavy armlets

Photograph of a Maasai woman wearing heavy armlets, ear-lobe distenders and necklets etc. The Maasai tribe are largely from Tanzania and Kenya. The original photograph was taken by Sir Harry Johnston and included in Hutchinson, Walter; Customs of the World, Vol I, p.XI.

July 1952

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the item from which the image has been taken: 645668i.

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 2022.

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