M0005735: Dr Shangase, Zulu traditional healer

Date:: 23 September 1938

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/47/46

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    - Images from the photographic libraryWT/D/1/20
      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0005691-M0005789WT/D/1/20/1/47
        M0005735: Dr Shangase, Zulu traditional healerWT/D/1/20/1/47/46

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Also known as

Previous title, replaced August 2020: Zulu witch Doctor treating patients

Description

A set of five photographs published in an issue of Hygeia, July 1928, of the traditional Zulu healer Dr Shangase from Natal. Top left: Shangase treating a patient with emetics (accession number PHO 5760). Top right: Shangase treating a patient suffering from tuberculosis of the knee joint (accession number PHO 5762). Centre: Shangase sitting (accession number PHO 5761). Bottom left: Shangase directing his attendant as he draws out the sickness in the arm of a patient by sucking through a horn (accession number PHO 5758). Bottom right: Shangase treating a girl with chronic headaches by cutting into her skull and scraping the bone (accession number PHO 5759).

Publication/Creation

23 September 1938

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

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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