M0000701: African traditional healer's string knitted suit and mask

Date:
01 January 1930
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/7/15
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M0000701: African traditional healer's string knitted suit and mask. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced May 2020: African medicine man, string knitted suit, black & white mask

Description

Photograph of a model of an African traditional healer's string knitted suit and black and white mask on display in the "Hall of Primitive Medicine" at Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in the early twentieth century. The suit is not held by Wellcome Collection.

Publication/Creation

01 January 1930

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds a printed photograph version of the image: WA/PHO/Hmm/4

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 2020.

Terms of use

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

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