M0005701: Orokaiva men preparing a steam bath to drive out sickness, Papua New Guinea

Previous title, replaced November 2021: Steam bath to drive out sickness, Orokaiva Papua, New Guinea.

Reproductions of two photographs published in Williams, F. E: Orokaiva society, with an introduction by Sir Hubert Murray, London: Oxford University Press, 1930. Photographs of the two plates were acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1938 (accession number PHO 10950). The photographs show a group of Orokaiva men preparing a steam bath to drive out sickness. The Orokaiva are a people indigenous to Papua New Guinea, primarily in what is now Oro Province.

23 September 1938

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

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.

This item is fragile. Please consult the digitised version. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.