Bamboa tribe.

  • Mandel, L.
Date:
[approximately 1900]
Reference:
536589i
Part of:
The Fallaize Collection.
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Also known as

Previous title, replaced July 2022: A young woman of the Bamboa tribe, wearing beads and with decorative scarring on her abdomen. Photographic postcard, ca.1900, by L. Mandel.

Description

A young woman, wearing beads and with decorative scarring on her abdomen.

Publication/Creation

Khartoum : Victoria Stationary, [approximately 1900]

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint

Lettering

Bears number: 58

Notes

The title has been taken from wording on the object.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 536589i

Ownership note

Originally collected by British anthropologist Edwin Nichol Fallaize (1877-1957). Purchased by Capt. L.W.G. Malcolm in 1934, on behalf of Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome, for the price of £25. From a letter in the Wellcome archives dated 16th December 1934.

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