M0005268: Rite of garden magic: food offerings left for spirits

Date:
17 November 1937
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/42/98
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M0005268: Rite of garden magic: food offerings left for spirits. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Also known as

Previous title, replaced November 2021: Antelope Altar, Walpi. The alter in the Antelope Kiva is a mosaic of sand, ceremonially made, in brown, red, white, yellow, green and black. The zigzag lines typifying lightening which brings rain. Around it stand clan emblems, fetishes, priests' jugs and bahos, or paryer-sticks made of two sticks tied together with a bundle of feathers; also bowls of sacred cornmeal and rattles.

Description

Reproduction of a photograph of religious food offerings left for spirits, described as "Rite of garden magic. An offering of cooked food is exposed to the spirits for some time in the garden". Originally published in Argonauts of the western Pacific : an account of native enterprise and adventure in the archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski, Routledge & sons, 1922. Photograph acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum courtesy of Fay Cooper Cole.

Publication/Creation

17 November 1937

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the publication 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 2021.

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