M0008700: Two images of an Aboriginal Australian healer working on a patient, Kakadu

Date:: 1942

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/76/9

Part of:: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive

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  - 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: M0008692-M0008787WT/D/1/20/1/76
        M0008700: Two images of an Aboriginal Australian healer working on a patient, KakaduWT/D/1/20/1/76/9

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M0008700: Two images of an Aboriginal Australian healer working on a patient, Kakadu. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Also known as

Previous title, replaced October 2020: 2 images of Medicine man, rubbing his hand under his armpit to secure moisture and rub on patient.

Description

Reproductions of two photographs published as figures 68 and 69 in Spencer, Baldwin: Native tribes of the northern territory of Australia, London: Macmillan, 1914. Related images: M0008699, M0008699EB

Publication/Creation

1942

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

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 2020.

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