M0005684: A Zande man operating a rubbing board oracle, North Central Africa

Date:: 23 September 1938

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/46/95

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        M0005684: A Zande man operating a rubbing board oracle, North Central AfricaWT/D/1/20/1/46/95

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Previous title, replaced November 2021: Operating the rubbing board oracle.

Description

Reproduction of two photographs of a man using a rubbing board oracle and a gourd of water to wet the lid. The photographs were published in Evans-Pritchard, E. E: Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande, Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1937. Copies of the book plates were acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1938 (accession number PHO 10961).

Publication/Creation

23 September 1938

Physical description

2 photographs on 1 plate glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

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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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