M0019110: Zande person mutilated as punishment for adultery

Date:: June 1962

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/170/10

Part of:: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive

Archives and manuscripts

Collection contents

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: M0019101-M0019196WT/D/1/20/1/170
        M0019110: Zande person mutilated as punishment for adulteryWT/D/1/20/1/170/10

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced October 2020: S. Sudan's penal mutilation: amputation of hands for adultery

Description

Reproduction of a photograph on a Zande person mutilated as punishment for adultery. The reproduction is from Bryk, Felix: Die Beschneidung bei Mann und Weib: ihre Geschichte, Psychologie und Ethnologie, Neubrandenburg: G. Feller, 1931, p.103, figure 6. The Azande are an ethnic group of North Central Africa. Related images: M0005708

Publication/Creation

June 1962

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative:

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 2022.

Terms of use

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.