M0005326: Divination: bone throwing in Southern Africa

Date:
November 1937
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/43/57
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M0005326: Divination: bone throwing in Southern Africa. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced November 2021: African divination the "bone thrower" shaking the bones

Description

Reproduction of a photograph of divination in Southern Africa. The image shows a man sitting on the ground throwing pieces of bone. With this practice of divination the bone thrower studied the pattern the bones made on the ground. The reproduction is from an unknown publication.

Publication/Creation

November 1937

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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