M0002708: Nigerian man wearing a mask, possibly a practitioner of Yorùbá medicine  / M0002708EB: A Nigerian man, possibly a practitioner of Yorùbá medicine

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Right-hand side on plate: Photograph of a painting of a Nigerian man in a mask, possibly a practitioner of Yorùbá medicine in Maiduguri, with caption "East African Witch-Doctor" underneath, likely to have been used when displayed in the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. Left-hand side on plate: Reproduction of a photograph, after a painting by E. Schwartz, of a Nigerian man, possibly a practitioner of Yorùbá medicine in Maiduguri, with caption "Nigerian Medicine-Man" underneath, likely to have been used when displayed in the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. This photograph was accessioned February 1915 by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum (R1019)

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M0002708: Nigerian man wearing a mask, possibly a practitioner of Yorùbá medicine / M0002708EB: A Nigerian man, possibly a practitioner of Yorùbá medicine

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