M0005281: Boy with scars on his forehead as a result of treatment for epilepsy, Papua New Guinea

Date:: November 1937

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/43/12

Part of:: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive

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- 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: M0005270-M0005370WT/D/1/20/1/43
        M0005281: Boy with scars on his forehead as a result of treatment for epilepsy, Papua New GuineaWT/D/1/20/1/43/12

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M0005281: Boy with scars on his forehead as a result of treatment for epilepsy, Papua New Guinea. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced November 2021: Boyscarred forehead as a treatment for epilepsy

Description

Reproduction of a photograph of a boy with scars on his forehead as a result of surgery, in an attempt to cure epilepsy and headaches, Papua New Guinea. Originally published in Dreissig Jahre der Sudsee by Richard Parkinson, Stuttgart, 1907. Related material: V0015970

Publication/Creation

November 1937

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the item depicted in the glass plate negative:21405i

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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