M0005576: Tattoo designs used in medicine

Date:
8 August 1938
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/45/88
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M0005576: Tattoo designs used in medicine. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced November 2021: Tattoo designs used in medicine

Description

Illustrations of the meanings of certain tattoo symbols. Published in Seligmann, C. G: "The Medicine, Surgery, and Midwifery of the Sinaugolo", The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, vol.32, 1902. Related images: M0005575

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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