M0017764: Traditional healer's girdle, Uganda

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Medicine man's girdle, Africa.

Photograph of a girdle used by a traditional healer hung with cowrie shells and amulets. From Uganda. It was purchased at auction by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1933 and accessioned in 1947 (accession number R140/1943). it was removed from the Museum's holdings in 1965.

February 1960

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item: R140/1943

Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

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 2022.

This item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.