M0005581: Illustrations of 13 mouths showing tooth extractions

Previous title, replaced November 2021: A group of Nyam-nyam

Reproduction of a set of illustrations showing how and where teeth have been modified and extracted from the mouths of 13 Azande (or Nyam-nyam) people. Published in Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories: Fourth report of the Wellcome Research Laboratories at the Gordon Memorial College, Khartoum, London: 1911. A copy of the illustration was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1938 (accession number PHO 10862). Related images: M0005580

August 1938

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

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.

Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

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