M0007438: A Filipino parturition chair

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Parturition chair called Sandigan, Phillipines

Photograph of a parturition or birthing chair used in Samar, the Republic of the Philippines, and named Sandigan, a tagalog word meaning back of a seat or support. The item was previously part of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum but is not held by Wellcome Collection. Another photograph of this image was accessioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum on 12th October 1935 (PHO 5268).

6 September 1940

2 photographs glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm photographic print; 13.2 x 10 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register for another photograph of the same image:PHO 5268.

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 2020.

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