Two Pygmy men, wearing penis gourds and carrying large bags and bows and arrows.
- Date:
- [approximately 1900]
- Reference:
- 535627i
- Part of:
- The Fallaize Collection.
- Pictures
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Description
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Publication/Creation
[approximately 1900]
Physical description
1 photograph : photoprint
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Lettering
Pygmies wearing their bags decorated with boar tushes.
Bears number pencilled top right: 28
The description is pencilled on the verso
Notes
This work is untitled: the title has been supplied by the cataloguer.
Reference
Wellcome Collection 535627i
Ownership note
Originally collected by British anthropologist Edwin Nichol Fallaize (1877-1957). Purchased by Capt. L.W.G. Malcolm in 1934, on behalf of Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome, for the price of £25. From a letter in the Wellcome archives dated 16th December 1934.
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Location Status Access Closed stores