M0005704: Man preparing Zande Bingiya medicine

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Reproduction of a photograph of an Azande man preparing a hunting medicine. The photograph was reproduced in Evans-Pritchard, E. E: <i>Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande</i>, 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).

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