M0009580: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum display: traditional healer of the Idiong Secret Society surrounded by his equipment

Date:
30 August 1946
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/84/39
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M0009580: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum display: traditional healer of the Idiong Secret Society surrounded by his equipment. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Also known as

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Medicine Man of the Idiong Secret Society surrounded by his equipment. Life-size plaster figure in primitive section

Description

Photograph of a life-size plaster figure of a traditional healer (Abia Ibok) of the Idiong Secret Society surrounded by his equipment. The figure was on display in the museum's "Hall of Primitive Medicine" but is not held by Wellcome Collection.

Publication/Creation

30 August 1946

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Copyright note

Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

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 2020.

Terms of use

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

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