M0005561: Female image on carved from a piece of coal, Torres Strait Islands

Previous title, replaced November 2021: Female image on Charm, carved from a piece of coal

Reproduction of an illustration of a female image carved from a piece of coal who would look after the fire. Illustration by James Edge-Partington from his first series, p.345, number 2. A photograph of the illustration was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1938 (accession number PHO 10837).

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.

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