M0005704: Man preparing Zande Bingiya medicine

Previous title, replaced August 2020: Stirring and addressing bingija medicine

Reproduction of a photograph of an Azande man preparing a hunting medicine. The photograph was reproduced in Evans-Pritchard, E. E: Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande, Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1937, plate XXVI with the caption "Stirring and addressing bingiya medicine". The Azande are an ethnic group of North Central Africa. A photograph of the book plate with caption was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1938 (accession number PHO 10948).

23 September 1938

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative. More information about the original photograph can be found at the Pitt Rivers Museum:

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.

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