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

Date:: 23 September 1938

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/47/11

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        M0005701: Orokaiva men preparing a steam bath to drive out sickness, Papua New GuineaWT/D/1/20/1/47/11

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M0005701: Orokaiva men preparing a steam bath to drive out sickness, Papua New Guinea. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

Description

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.

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23 September 1938

Physical description

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

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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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