M0005595: Circle of twisted palm leaves fixed to a palm stem, used to give a farm the protection of Udo, Nigeria

Date:: August 1938

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/46/6

Part of:: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive

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Wellcome Trust Corporate ArchiveWT
- Direct activitiesWT/D
  - Library and MuseumWT/D/1
    - Images from the photographic libraryWT/D/1/20
      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0005590-M0005690WT/D/1/20/1/46
        M0005595: Circle of twisted palm leaves fixed to a palm stem, used to give a farm the protection of Udo, NigeriaWT/D/1/20/1/46/6

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M0005595: Circle of twisted palm leaves fixed to a palm stem, used to give a farm the protection of Udo, Nigeria. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced November 2021: Circle of twisted palm leaves used to give protection of Udo

Description

Photograph of a circle of twisted palm leaves used to give farms the protection of Udo, a powerful Arusi or Alusi, spirits worshipped in the Igbo religion. The photograph was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1937 (accession number PHO 9321)

Publication/Creation

August 1938

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item: acc. number PHO 9321

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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