M0005704: Man preparing Zande Bingiya medicine

Date:
23 September 1938
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/47/14
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Credit

M0005704: Man preparing Zande Bingiya medicine. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

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

Description

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).

Publication/Creation

23 September 1938

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

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:

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.

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