M0005674: A Banara man and a Sara man displaying their teeth

Date:: September 1938

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/46/83

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      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0005590-M0005690WT/D/1/20/1/46
        M0005674: A Banara man and a Sara man displaying their teethWT/D/1/20/1/46/83

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M0005674: A Banara man and a Sara man displaying their teeth. Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Also known as

Previous title, replaced November 2021: Cosmetic dentistry, Banara man and Sara man.

Description

Photographs of two men from near Lake Chad, one Masa (also known as Banana) and one Sara, displaying their front teeth which have been cosmetically altered. The photographs were part of a set of six showing African and Malay cosmetic dentistry that was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1938 (accession number PHO 10867).

Publication/Creation

September 1938

Physical description

2 photographs on 1 plate 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 2021.

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