M0001949EA: Reproduction of a photograph with the caption "A medicine man. The making of a charm for protection from lions" / M0001949EB: Reproduction of a photograph with the caption "The gods Thoth and Horus pouring the water of life over the king, a carving on the walls of the Temple of Komombo"

Date:: June 1931

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/18/30

Part of:: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive

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    - Images from the photographic libraryWT/D/1/20
      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0001912-M0002212WT/D/1/20/1/18
        M0001949EA: Reproduction of a photograph with the caption "A medicine man. The making of a charm for protection from lions" / M0001949EB: Reproduction of a photograph with the caption "The gods Thoth and Horus pouring the water of life over the king, a carving on the walls of the Temple of Komombo"WT/D/1/20/1/18/30

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M0001949EA: Reproduction of a photograph with the caption "A medicine man. The making of a charm for protection from lions" / M0001949EB: Reproduction of a photograph with the caption "The gods Thoth and Horus pouring the water of life over the king, a carving on the walls of the Temple of Komombo". In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced May 2020: Wall carving, gods Thoth and Horus pouring water of life over the King, Temple of Komombo

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Wall carving, gods Thoth and Horus

Description

Two images on one negative: a black and white reproduction with the caption "A medicine man, and a photograph of a relief (art) with the caption "Egypt, the Nile" at the header, and "The gods Thoth and Horus pouring the water of life over the king, a carving on the walls of the Temple of Komombo" at the footer. The second image was reproduced from Haggard, Howard W.: Devils, drugs, and doctors : the story of the science of healing from medicine-man to doctor New York : Blue Ribbon Books, [1929].

Publication/Creation

June 1931

Physical description

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

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds an edition of one of the publications depicted in the glass plate negative

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 2020.

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