M0005597: Woman consulting an oracle in a Chinese temple

Date:
August 1938
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/46/8
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M0005597: Woman consulting an oracle in a Chinese temple. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced November 2021: Illustration of woman consulting oracle in Chinese temple.

Description

Reproduction of a photograph of a woman casting bamboo lots - sticks which are numbered to correspond with paper slips - held by the presiding monk and informing her as to whether her prayers are answered. Published in the Illustrated London News, 9th October 1937. A copy of the newspaper cutting was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1937 (accession number PHO 10518).

Publication/Creation

August 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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