M0017554 and M0017555: images from Bolivia / M0017556: Bushman dancing at Port Elizabeth (Gqeberha), 1945 / M0017557: Sarawak Regatta, Malaysia

Date:
August 1959
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/157/31
Part of:
Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
  • Archives and manuscripts

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced October 2020: 4 images from Bolivia including boy with pipe Llama from Lago Titicaca
Previous title, replaced October 2020: 4 images from Bolivia including ceremonial costume and Llama and stone archway at Puerta del Sol, Tinhuanaco
Previous title, replaced October 2020: Bushman dancing at Port Elizabeth. These Bushmen from the desert toured many parts of the Union after the close of Johnannesburg Exhibition
Previous title, replaced October 2020: 2 different images, Sarawak- Kuching Regatta showing racing canoe (cf. Charles Hose)

Description

Negative strip comprising several photographs: eight photographs from Bolivia of a boy from Lake Titicaca, people dancing in costume, a stone archway at Puerta del Sol, Tiahuanaco and boats on Lake Titicaca. A photographof bushmen dancing at Port Elizabeth (now Gqeberha), South Africa. Two photographs from the Sarawak Regatta in Kuching, Malaysia. All of the photographs were lent to the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum by Winifred Brooke.

Publication/Creation

August 1959

Physical description

11 photographs on one negative sheet film negative; 3.5 x 14.5 cm

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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