M0005522: Man standing beneath a structure erected to ensure good health to twins, Bopoto, Congo

Date:
4 August 1938
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WT/D/1/20/1/45/34
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M0005522: Man standing beneath a structure erected to ensure good health to twins, Bopoto, Congo. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Also known as

Previous title, replaced November 2021: A Bopoto fetish ensuring good health to twins.

Description

Reproduction of a photograph of a structure erected after birth to ensure good health to twins. The placentas in two vessels are raised on forked sticks erected on each side of the road leading to the village. The reproduction is published in Hambley, Wilfrid Dyson: Origins of education among primitive peoples, London: Macmillan, 1926. A copy of the book illustration was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1938 (accession number PHO 10791).

Publication/Creation

4 August 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 2021.

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