M0006267: Female genital excision operation being performed on an Mbakwa-Manja girl

Previous title, replaced August 2020: Excision operation being performed on a Mbakwa-Manja girl.

Photograph of a female genital excision operation being performed by a group of women. Related images: M0006266, M0006268, V0031165

09 May 1939

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the item depicted in the glass plate negative: 644296i

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.

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