M0005979: Traditional healer with surgical instruments, north Nigeria

Date:: 02 January 1939

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/49/80

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: M0005897-M0005999WT/D/1/20/1/49
        M0005979: Traditional healer with surgical instruments, north NigeriaWT/D/1/20/1/49/80

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M0005979: Traditional healer with surgical instruments, north Nigeria. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced August 2020: Barber Surgeon with instruments Nupe, N. Nigeria, Dr. Nadel

Description

Photograph of a traditional healer of the Nupe people in north Nigeria. The photograph is one of a set of photographs made by enlarging a film presented to the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum by a Dr Nadel in June 1937. The photograph was accessioned in 1937 with accession number PHO 10077. Related images: M0005977, M0005978, M0005980.

Publication/Creation

02 January 1939

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 2020.

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