M0000010: Tibetan toilette instruments and Hindu surgical instrument

Date:
03 June 1929
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/2/9
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M0000010: Tibetan toilette instruments and Hindu surgical instrument. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Description

Left: Tibetan silver chatelaine with inlaid turquoise and red beads with five toilette instruments acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1919 (accession number R11418). Right: Hindu set of five iron surgical instruments acquired by the Museum and accession in May 1917 (accession number R6615). Neither item is held by Wellcome Collection.

Publication/Creation

03 June 1929

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

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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