Tibet: a dead body being broken up with a hammer and knife for throwing to the birds. Photograph, 19--.

Date:
[1900?]
Reference:
663973i
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Tibet: a dead body being broken up with a hammer and knife for throwing to the birds. Photograph, 19--. Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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A crowd of vultures sit watching in the background

Publication/Creation

[Tibet] : [publisher not identified], [1900?]

Physical description

1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 8.5 x 14 cm

Lettering

Cutting the dead to pieces & throwing to birds (Tibet) Lettering written in the negative; further inscription on verso about the vultures

Reference

Wellcome Collection 663973i

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