'Ethnology Displays'

Exhibits at Wigmore Street and Euston Road

Includes the following:

WA/PHO/Hmm/4/1: A Head-Hunter's hut from south east New Guinea, 1920s. V0031352. Previous caption: This hut was exhibited in the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum's Hall of Primitive Medicine. To Wellcome his Historical Medical Museum would relate the development of medicine from ancient times to the present day, using artefacts from around the world. Other spaces in the Museum included a Hall of Statuary, Portrait Gallery and a series of period rooms and reconstructions of historic pharmacies. Ironically, the site of the Museum on Wigmore Street is now actually occupied by a present day pharmacy (John Bell & Croyden).

WA/PHO/Hmm/4/2: Figurines in the Hall of Primitive Medicine, Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, 1920s. V0031351. Previous caption: From information written on this photograph, the figurines appear to be fetish figures used by medicine men in the Congo.

1913-1972

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Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/7/15; WT/D/1/20/1/7/16, WT/D/1/20/1/107/25, WT/D/1/20/1/107/26, WT/D/1/20/1/107/27, WT/D/1/20/1/107/28, WT/D/1/20/1/107/28, WT/D/1/20/1/107/29, WT/D/1/20/1/107/30, WT/D/1/20/1/107/31, WT/D/1/20/1/107/32, WT/D/1/20/1/107/33, WT/D/1/20/1/107/34, WT/D/1/20/1/107/35 and WT/D/1/20/1/107/36

Photographs of the following are held by Wellcome Images: Display cases showing examples of ritual art of New Guinea, n.d., L31267 Medicine Man, 1928, L31268 Hall of Primitive Medicine material illustrating primitive knowledge, fire making, lighting, counting, recording, weighing, measuring, currency, n.d., L31269 Display cases of ethnological exhibits, n.d., L31270 Hall of Primitive Medicine: Aetiology: human control of non-natural agency, Africa, n.d., L31271 Hall of Primitive Medicine: Artificial deformation: head, face, teeth, waist, arms, legs, n.d., L31272 Hall of Primitive Medicine: Disposal of the dead: funeral accessories, n.d., L31273 General view of first floor front, 1928, L31275 Negative of Chokse masquerader, n.d., L66937