M0012558: Illustration of stretcher for transporting the sick

Previous title, replaced March 2022: Method of transporting the sick among the Maoris

Photograph of an engraving by Thompson-Longmore showing a stretcher designed by the M?ori people to transport the sick in New Zealand, with caption in German underneath. This reproduction was taken from Bartels, Max (Maximilian): Die Medicin der Naturvölker : ethnologische Beiträge zur Urgeschichte der Medicin, Leipzig : T. Grieben (L. Fernau), 1893.

June 1952

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds a copy of the publication from which the image depicted in the glass plate negative has been reproduced.

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 2022.

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