M0005556: Two illustrations of wooden tools for making fire from Australia and the East Indian Archipelago

Date:
8 August 1938
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/45/68
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M0005556: Two illustrations of wooden tools for making fire from Australia and the East Indian Archipelago. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced November 2021: Fire-sticks from Australia and East Indian Archipelago

Description

Reproduction of two illustrations fire making tools published in Frobenius, Leo: Childhood of man, London, 1909. A photograph of the illustrations was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1938 (accession number PHO 10842).

Publication/Creation

8 August 1938

Physical description

1 photograph 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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