M0000520: Kalmuck World Picture

Illustration of a world picture from the Kalmuck people. The square in the middle is Mount Sumeru (Meru) and four faces representing the four continents, published in Holmberg, Uno: Finno-Ugric, Siberian (Mythology), 1927. A print of the negative was accessioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1930 (accession number PHO 88)

1929

1 photograph glass plate negative; 8.1 x 10.6 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item acc. number PHO 88 (image 34)

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

This item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.