Central African Republic: cupping using a horn which is placed on the patient's lower back and sucked by the medical practitioner who squats over him. Photograph by Antonin Marius Vergiat, ca. 1935.

  • Vergiat, Antonin Marius, 1900-
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1935
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581003i
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1935

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1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 8.9 x 14 cm

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Collection Ethnographique, A.M. Vergiat, Villemontais (Loire), France, 36. Oubangui-Chari, sorcier indigène faisant une ventouse Lettering printed on photographic postcard verso

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