M0005733: Traditional healer laying an item on an animal skin, South Africa

Date:: 23 September 1938

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/47/44

Part of:: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive

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Wellcome Trust Corporate ArchiveWT
- Direct activitiesWT/D
  - Library and MuseumWT/D/1
    - Images from the photographic libraryWT/D/1/20
      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0005691-M0005789WT/D/1/20/1/47
        M0005733: Traditional healer laying an item on an animal skin, South AfricaWT/D/1/20/1/47/44

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M0005733: Traditional healer laying an item on an animal skin, South Africa. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced August 2020: Yemba Witch Doctress, South Africa

Description

Photograph acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1937 (accession number PHO 9197). According to the accession register, the photograph was taken in Thembuland, a region in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.

Publication/Creation

23 September 1938

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

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 2020.

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