M0005702: Melanesian item on a stand made from a skull, feathers, plants, cord and other materials

Date:
23 September 1938
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/47/12
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M0005702: Melanesian item on a stand made from a skull, feathers, plants, cord and other materials. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced November 2021: Skull prepared for Sorcery from Customs of the World

Description

Reproduction of a photograph originally published in Seligman, C. G: The Melanesians of British New Guinea, Cambridge: University Press, 1910 and reproduced in Hutchinson, Walter: Customs of the world : a popular account of the manners, rites and ceremonies of men and women in all countries, volume I, London: Hutchinson, 1913. The publication identifies the item as a "skull prepared for sorcery". A photograph of the book plate was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1938 (accession number PHO 10952)

Publication/Creation

23 September 1938

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the original publication the image in the glass plate negative appeared in

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 2021.

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