M0005682: Subincision operation, Central Australia

Date:
23 September 1938
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/46/92
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Credit

M0005682: Subincision operation, Central Australia. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced November 2021: Operation of Subincision, Warrumanga Tribe, Central Australia

Description

Reproduction of a photograph of a group of Warumunga men performing a subincision operation on another man. Published in Spencer, Baldwin and Gillen, F. J: The northern tribes of central Australia, London: Macmillan and Co.; New York : The Macmillan Company, 1904. A copy of the photograph was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1938 (accession number PHO 10723). Related images: M0005682EB

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 2021.

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