M0002707: A set of divining bones / M0002707EB: "Instruments and medicine containers"

Date:: 04 January 1932

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/22/86

Part of:: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive

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- Direct activitiesWT/D
  - Library and MuseumWT/D/1
    - Images from the photographic libraryWT/D/1/20
      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0002602-M0002724WT/D/1/20/1/22
        M0002707: A set of divining bones / M0002707EB: "Instruments and medicine containers"WT/D/1/20/1/22/86

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Previous title, replaced May 2020: Illustration of a complete set of divining bones.

Description

Above on plate: Reproduction of a photograph, of a set of divining bones, with caption underneath. Below on plate: Reproduction of a half tone print, after a photograph, of traditional instruments and medicine containers, with caption underneath. This reproduction was made from Hilton-Simpson, M.W.: Arab medicine & surgery: a study of the healing art in Algeria, London: Oxford university press, H. Milford, 1922. Related images: M0002700/M0002700EB, M0002702/M0002702EB, M0002703, M0002701/M0002701EB, M0002704/M0002704EB, M0002705/M0002705EB, M0002706/M0002706EB

Publication/Creation

04 January 1932

Physical description

2 photographs on 1 plate 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 2020.

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