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Effigies

Images

  • Effigy of a shaman, Haida, Queen charlotte Island.
  • M0017392: Fourteen African statues
  • M0016046: Ancestral anthropomorphic effigy, Tami Islands, New Guinea
  • The interior of a house on the island of Nootka Sound, British Columbia, Canada, with some of its inhabitants encountered by Captain Cook on his third voyage (1777-1780). Engraving by W. Sharp, 1784, after J. Webber.
  • Figure representing pregnant woman, Ivory Coast, West Africa.
All images (25)

Catalogue

    • Pictures

    A procession of officials of the city of London approach the entrance to St James's Palace to present to King George III the petition of the Livery of London. Engraving, 1769.

    | Date: [July 5 1769] | Reference: 584090i
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0016045: Anthropomorphic effigy, Ulawa, Solomon Islands

    | Date: 1957 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/143/86
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0017393: Sixteen African statues

    | Date: 1959 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/156/24
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0003935: Pair of effigies, Malakula Island

    | Date: May 1934 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/32/86
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0017391: Seventeen African statues

    | Date: 1959 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/156/22
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
All works (33)

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