Female genital excision, Ubangi Shari: the operation being performed on an Mbakwa-Manja girl. Photograph by A.M. Vergiat.

  • Vergiat, Antonin Marius, 1900-
Date:
1937
Reference:
644296i
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1937

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1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 18 x 24 cm

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A. M. Vergiat, Les rites secrets des primitifs de l'Oubangui, Paris: L'Harmattan, 1981 (repr. of Paris: Editions Payot, 1936), facing p. 108 ("Opération de l'excision chez les Mbakwas-Manjas")

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Wellcome Collection 644296i

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