A group of Pygmy men, all wearing penis gourds, carrying bows and arrows.

Date:: [approximately 1900]

Reference:: 535661i

Part of:: The Fallaize Collection.

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Collection contents

The Fallaize Collection.
- African portraits.
  - A group of Pygmy men, all wearing penis gourds, carrying bows and arrows.535661i

About this work

Description

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The two men on either side of the group are markedly taller, so perhaps are not members of the same tribe

Publication/Creation

[approximately 1900]

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint

Contributors

Fallaize, Edwin Nichol, 1877-1957former owner

Notes

This work is untitled: the title has been supplied by the cataloguer.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 535661i

Ownership note

Originally collected by British anthropologist Edwin Nichol Fallaize (1877-1957). Purchased by Capt. L.W.G. Malcolm in 1934, on behalf of Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome, for the price of £25. From a letter in the Wellcome archives dated 16th December 1934.