M0005577: Photograph of a Melanesian man with tattoos on his chest

Date:: 8 August 1938

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/45/89

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        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0005488-M0005589WT/D/1/20/1/45
        M0005577: Photograph of a Melanesian man with tattoos on his chestWT/D/1/20/1/45/89

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M0005577: Photograph of a Melanesian man with tattoos on his chest. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Also known as

Previous title, replaced November 2021: Illustrations of tattoo assumed by homicide

Description

Reproduction of a photograph of a Melanesian man with tattoos on his chest that signify he has killed a person. Published in Seligman, C. G: The Melanesians of British New Guinea, Cambridge : The University Press, 1910. A copy of the reproduced photograph was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1938 (accession number PHO 10877).

Publication/Creation

8 August 1938

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

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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