M0005874: A man pretending to cut a boy's throat as part of a healing practice

Date:: 03 November 1938

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/48/80

Part of:: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive

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  - Library and MuseumWT/D/1
    - Images from the photographic libraryWT/D/1/20
      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0005789-M0005896WT/D/1/20/1/48
        M0005874: A man pretending to cut a boy's throat as part of a healing practiceWT/D/1/20/1/48/80

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M0005874: A man pretending to cut a boy's throat as part of a healing practice. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

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Previous title, replaced August 2020: Butcher pretending to cut a boy's throat

Description

Reproduction of a photograph with the caption "The butcher pretending to cut a boy's throat to cure him of huskiness". The photograph was reproduced in Blackman, Winifred S.: The fell?h?n of Upper Egypt: their religious, social and industrial life to-day with special reference to survivals from ancient times, London: G. G. Harrap and Company [1927], p.213, figure 127. Related images: M0005873.

Publication/Creation

03 November 1938

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

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 2020.

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Traditional medicine

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