M0005710: Three photographs of a healing ceremony, Panama

Previous title, replaced August 2020: 3 images of Choco Indians from Panama

Three photographs taken on 6 February 1937 of a healing ceremony being undertaken by an Emberán traditional healer on a boy. The Emberá are an indigenous people of Panama and Columbia, previously known as the Choco or Katio Indians. The three photographs show the traditional healer wearing full regalia, the healer carrying the boy to the shelter accompanied by a flute player and the flute player bending over the cured boy following the healing ceremony. The photographs were acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1937 (accession numbers PHO 9928, PHO 9929 and PHO 9930). Related images: M0005709, M0005709EB, M0005711

23 September 1938

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the items: accession numbers PHO 9928, PHO 9929 and PHO 9930

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.

This item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.