Benin: a healing ceremony during which patients are swept with brooms after their illness has been driven into some chickens. Photograph by H.V. Meyerowitz, 19--.

  • Meyerowitz, Herbert Vladimir, 1900-1945.
Date:
1900-1999
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580833i
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1900-1999

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1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 12.5 x 17.9 cm

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All traces of the sickness must be literally swept away. The patients are treated with small brooms after the illness has left their bodies and entered the fowls, which have now been removed. Photograph by H.V. Meyerowitz, copyright by Kurt Lubinski Lettering attached to label on verso Photograph verso bears photographic studio stamp: "Copyright Kurt Lubinski [...]"

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Wellcome Collection 580833i

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