M0012660: M?ori hei-tiki, New Zealand

Date:
August 1952
  • Archives and manuscripts

About this work

Description

Photograph of three M?ori hei-tiki made of pounamu or greenstone from New Zealand, shown as on display with captions in the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. These items were accessioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum (R6080/1936, 10192/1936, R773/1939) but are not held by Wellcome Collection. The photograph was included in the catalogue for a Wellcome Historical Medical Museum Exhibition illustrating the medicine of the aboriginal peoples in the British Commonwealth, London, 1952.

Publication/Creation

August 1952

Physical description

1 photograph
glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register for an item depicted in the glass plate negative:R6080/1936

Copyright note

Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

Terms of use

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

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 2022.

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Location of original

Wellcome Library; GB.
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