M0005599: Ashanti girl with a traditional Akuaba doll, Ghana

Date:
August 1938
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/46/10
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Credit

M0005599: Ashanti girl with a traditional Akuaba doll, Ghana. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced November 2021: Ashanti girl with traditional doll called Akuaba

Description

Photograph of an Ashanti girl with a carved wooden doll with a flat, discoidal head called an Akuaba. The name is said to come from the story of Akua, a woman having difficulty conceiving a child. The photograph was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1937 (accession number PHO 10532). Related images: V0031118

Publication/Creation

August 1938

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the item depicted in the glass plate negative: 580840i.

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.

Terms of use

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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