Central African Republic: cupping using a horn which is placed on the patient's lower back and sucked by the medical practitioner who squats over him. Photograph by Antonin Marius Vergiat, ca. 1935.

  • Vergiat, Antonin Marius, 1900-
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1935
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581003i
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view Central African Republic: cupping using a horn which is placed on the patient's lower back and sucked by the medical practitioner who squats over him. Photograph by Antonin Marius Vergiat, ca. 1935.

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Central African Republic: cupping using a horn which is placed on the patient's lower back and sucked by the medical practitioner who squats over him. Photograph by Antonin Marius Vergiat, ca. 1935. Wellcome Collection. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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1935

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1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 8.9 x 14 cm

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Collection Ethnographique, A.M. Vergiat, Villemontais (Loire), France, 36. Oubangui-Chari, sorcier indigène faisant une ventouse Lettering printed on photographic postcard verso

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Wellcome Collection 581003i

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