M0014544: Traditional healer's bag made of jackal skin with head still attached, Uganda

Previous title, replaced January 2022: Medicine man's bag, jackal's skin, with head in situ. Uganda

Bag from Ankole, Uganda. It was presented to the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum by the Reverend J.Roscoe in 1920 and accessioned in 1936 (accession number R5440/1936). It is not held by Wellcome Collection. The item was exhibited in the Museum's exhibition "Medicine of the Aboriginal Peoples in the British Commonwealth" held in 1952.

March 1956

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item: acc. number R5440/1936

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.

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