M0005703: Medicines hanging from a granary and an axe head in the ground

Previous title, replaced November 2021: Medicines hanging from granary and axe head in the ground.

Reproductions of two photographs published in Evans-Pritchard, E. E: Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande, Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1937. The Azande are an ethnic group of North Central Africa. Photographs of the two plates were acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1938 (accession number PHO 10946 and PHO 10947). One photograph shows medicines handing from a granary to ensure a prosperous and peaceful feast. The other shows an axe head driven into the ground amind plants to prevent rain from falling during a feast.

23 September 1938

2 photographs on 1 plate glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

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.