M0001947EA: Reproduction of a photograph captioned "Entrance to the great temple of Horus, the sun-god at Edfu" / M0001947EB: Reproduction of a photograph of three African girls in traditional costume

Date:
June 1931
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/18/29
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M0001947EA: Reproduction of a photograph captioned "Entrance to the great temple of Horus, the sun-god at Edfu" / M0001947EB: Reproduction of a photograph of three African girls in traditional costume. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Also known as

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Entrance to the Great Temple of Horus, the sun God
Previous title, replaced May 2020: Native girls in costume (initiation)

Description

Two images on one negative: a photograph captioned "Entrance to the great temple of Horus, the sun-god at Edfu" [in Egypt] (right) and a photograph of three African girls in traditional costume, possibly as part of an initiation ceremony (left). They are reproduced from Haggard, Howard W.: Devils, drugs, and doctors : the story of the science of healing from medicine-man to doctor New York : Blue Ribbon Books, [1929].

Publication/Creation

June 1931

Physical description

2 photographs on 1 plate glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds an edition of 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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