M0005578: Five Waima girls showing their tattoos

Date:: August 1938

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/45/90

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      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0005488-M0005589WT/D/1/20/1/45
        M0005578: Five Waima girls showing their tattoosWT/D/1/20/1/45/90

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M0005578: Five Waima girls showing their tattoos. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced November 2021: Illustrations of Waima girls showing tattoo

Description

Reproduction of a photograph of five Waima girls. Published in Seligman, C. G: The Melanesians of British New Guinea, Cambridge : The University Press, 1910. A copy of the reproduced photograph was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1938 (accession number PHO 10878).

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August 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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