M0012588: Maasai woman

Date:
July 1952
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/112/53
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M0012588: Maasai woman. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced August 2022: Artificial deformation, Masai woman wearing heavy armlets

Description

Photograph of a Maasai woman wearing heavy armlets, ear-lobe distenders and necklets etc. The Maasai tribe are largely from Tanzania and Kenya. The original photograph was taken by Sir Harry Johnston and included in Hutchinson, Walter; Customs of the World, Vol I, p.XI.

Publication/Creation

July 1952

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the item from which the image has been taken: 645668i.

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.

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