M0005688: Eleusine plant growing in the centre of a homestead and a pile of eleusine leaves drying, North Central Africa

Previous title, replaced November 2021: Eleusine plant, associated with Amatangi magic.

Reproduction of two photographs the eleusine plant associated with amatangi medicine. One photograph shows the plant growing and the other shows a pile of the leaves left to dry. The photographs are published as plate XXX in Evans-Pritchard, E. E: Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande, Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1937. The Azande are an ethnic group of North Central Africa. Photographs of the book plate were acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1938 (accession number PHO 10958 and PHO 10959).

23 September 1938

2 photographs on 1 plate glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative. More information about the original photograph can be found at the

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.

This item is fragile. Please consult the digitised version. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.