M0006587: Kwanyama woman giving an enema to a boy / M0006587EA: Kwanyama woman giving an enema to a boy / M0006587EB: Kwanyama woman giving an enema to a boy / M0006588: Kwanyama woman giving an enema to a boy

Four images on one negative: photographs showing a Kwanyama woman in Angola performing an enema on a boy. According to the accession register, the photographs are part of a set taken at the homestead of the District Chief of Owangwe district, near Namakunde, Lower Cunene, South Angola. The negatives were loaned to the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum by Miss A. Powell-Cotton and the museum made copy negatives and prints which were accessioned in 1939 (accession number for these photographs are PHO 11222, PHO 11223, PHO 11225, PHO 11226). Related images: M0006589, M0006590, M0006591, M0010840.

22 February 1940

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides entries for the item (acc. number PHO 11222-11226 image 172)

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 2020.

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