M0005575: Illustrations with the caption "Tattoo designs used in medicine"

Previous title, replaced November 2021: Illustrations of tattoo designs used in Medicine

Illustrations of tattoo designs seen on a Sinaugolo person from British New Guinea (now part of Papua New Guinea). Published in Seligmann, C. G: "The Medicine, Surgery, and Midwifery of the Sinaugolo", The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, vol.32, 1902. Related images: M0005576

8 August 1938

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

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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