African portraits.

Date:: [1900]

Reference:: 3305617i

Part of:: The Fallaize Collection.

Pictures

Collection contents

The Fallaize Collection.
- African portraits.3305617i

About this work

Description

14 portraits of individuals from Africa.

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Publication/Creation

[1900]

Physical description

13 photographs, 1 postcard

Contributors

Fallaize, Edwin Nichol, 1877-1957former owner

Notes

The photographs were originally grouped under the heading 'Pygmies/Male tribesmen', this heading may have been assigned when the Wellcome Library recieved the collection from Edwin Fallaize in 1936, or when the collection was first catalogued in 2001.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 3305617i

Ownership note

Originally collected by British anthropologist Edwin Nichol Fallaize (1877-1957). Purchased by Capt. L.W.G. Malcolm in 1934, on behalf of Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome, for the price of £25. From a letter in the Wellcome archives dated 16th December 1934.