M0009579: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum display: two nail effigies, Congo, West Africa

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Nail effigies, Congo, West Africa.

Photograph of two Nkisi effigies on display in the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. The larger item was purchased at auction by the Wellcome Historical Medicine in 1930 at accessioned in 1936 (accession number R2378/1936). It is still held by Wellcome Collection. The smaller item was acquired by the Museum at an unknown point and accessioned in 1936 (accession number R2381/1936). It is not held by Wellcome Collection.

30 August 1946

2 photographs glass plate negative; 16.5 x 12 cm photographic print; 16 x 11.8 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the items: accession number R2378/1936 and accession number R2381/1936

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.

Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

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