M0005413: Illustration of a Malacca woman invoking the Goddess of Smallpox and carrying fire on her head, symbolic of the disease

Date:: January 1938

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/44/41

Part of:: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive

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Wellcome Trust Corporate ArchiveWT
- Direct activitiesWT/D
  - Library and MuseumWT/D/1
    - Images from the photographic libraryWT/D/1/20
      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0005371-M0005487WT/D/1/20/1/44
        M0005413: Illustration of a Malacca woman invoking the Goddess of Smallpox and carrying fire on her head, symbolic of the diseaseWT/D/1/20/1/44/41

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M0005413: Illustration of a Malacca woman invoking the Goddess of Smallpox and carrying fire on her head, symbolic of the disease. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced November 2021: A Malaka woman invoking Goddess of Smallpox and carrying fire on her head, symbolic of the disease

Description

Drawing from an unknown source.

Publication/Creation

January 1938

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

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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