M0009592: Bangongo traditional healer who discovers suitable treatments by divination, the Congo

Date:
04 September 1946
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/84/51
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M0009592: Bangongo traditional healer who discovers suitable treatments by divination, the Congo. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Bangongo or Magician, who discovers by divination suitable me

Description

Photograph of a Bangongo traditional healer from the Congo area of Central Africa. The photograph was published in a work by Emil Torday and Thomas Athol Joyce and a reproduction was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1933 (accession number PHO 1673).

Publication/Creation

04 September 1946

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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