M0005514: Kenyah man making dart posion

Previous title, replaced November 2021: Kenyan making poisonous darts

Reproduction of a photograph of a man making dart posion by slowly heating the sap of the ipoh, or anitaris, tree until it becomes a thick paste. Published in Hose, Charles: The pagan tribes of Borneo, volume I, London, 1912. A print of the photograph was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1938 (accession number PHO 10806).

4 August 1938

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

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.