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Ethnological museums and collections

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  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: the Chapel of Votive Tablets. Photograph from a negative of 1913.
  • The Wellcome Research Institution building, Euston Road, London: looking through the Primitive Medicine Gallery of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. Photograph, n.d. [c. 1939].
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: a display of figurines and fetishes. Photograph from a negative of 1913.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: the Hall of Primitive Medicine. Photograph.
  • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: a head-hunter's hut, south east New Guinea, in the Hall of Primitive Medicine. Photograph.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Objects of culture : ethnology and ethnographic museums in Imperial Germany / H. Glenn Penny.

    Penny, H. Glenn. | Date: [2002], ©2002
    • Books

    Nomads : nomadic material culture in the Asian collections of the Horniman Museum / Ken Teague.

    Teague, Ken | Date: [2000]
    • Books

    The conservation of fur, feather and skin : seminar organised by the Conservators of Ethnographic Artefacts at the Museum of London on 11 December 2000 / edited by Margot M. Wright.

    | Date: 2002
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: the Hall of Primitive Medicine. Photograph.

    | Reference: 28791i
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, Wigmore Street, London: a display of figurines and fetishes. Photograph from a negative of 1913.

    | Reference: 28968i
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