M0017633: Two gourds containing curare, South America

Date:
October 1959
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/158/1
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M0017633: Two gourds containing curare, South America. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced October 2020: Gourds containing curare.

Description

Photograph of two South American gourds containing curare (arrow poison). The one on the left was previously part of the Wellcome Historical Medical Musuem but is not held by Wellcome Collection. The other was part of a set of eight from British Guiana (modern day Guyana) that was presented to Burroughs Wellcome & Co in November 1936 and passed to the Museum in 1950 (accession number R41/1950). It is not held by Wellcome Collection.

Publication/Creation

October 1959

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for one of the items: R41/1950

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Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

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 2022.

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

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