M0005682: Subincision operation, Central Australia

Previous title, replaced November 2021: Operation of Subincision, Warrumanga Tribe, Central Australia

Reproduction of a photograph of a group of Warumunga men performing a subincision operation on another man. Published in Spencer, Baldwin and Gillen, F. J: The northern tribes of central Australia, London: Macmillan and Co.; New York : The Macmillan Company, 1904. A copy of the photograph was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1938 (accession number PHO 10723). Related images: M0005682EB

23 September 1938

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

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.

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