M0002708: Nigerian man wearing a mask, possibly a practitioner of Yorùbá medicine / M0002708EB: A Nigerian man, possibly a practitioner of Yorùbá medicine

Date:: 04 January 1932

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/22/87

Part of:: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive

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Wellcome Trust Corporate ArchiveWT
- Direct activitiesWT/D
  - Library and MuseumWT/D/1
    - Images from the photographic libraryWT/D/1/20
      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0002602-M0002724WT/D/1/20/1/22
        M0002708: Nigerian man wearing a mask, possibly a practitioner of Yorùbá medicine / M0002708EB: A Nigerian man, possibly a practitioner of Yorùbá medicineWT/D/1/20/1/22/87

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M0002708: Nigerian man wearing a mask, possibly a practitioner of Yorùbá medicine / M0002708EB: A Nigerian man, possibly a practitioner of Yorùbá medicine. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Also known as

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Nigerian medicine man wearing numerous charms etc. Maiduguri Bornu, Nothern Nigeria

Description

Right-hand side on plate: Photograph of a painting of a Nigerian man in a mask, possibly a practitioner of Yorùbá medicine in Maiduguri, with caption "East African Witch-Doctor" underneath, likely to have been used when displayed in the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. Left-hand side on plate: Reproduction of a photograph, after a painting by E. Schwartz, of a Nigerian man, possibly a practitioner of Yorùbá medicine in Maiduguri, with caption "Nigerian Medicine-Man" underneath, likely to have been used when displayed in the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. This photograph was accessioned February 1915 by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum (R1019)

Publication/Creation

04 January 1932

Physical description

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

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the item depicted in the glass plate negative:22171i

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 2020.

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