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

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

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.

23 September 1938

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

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.

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