M0005709EB: An Emberá boy about to be treated by a healer

Photograph taken on 6 February 1937. The Emberá are an indigenous people of Panama and Columbia, previously known as the Choco or Katio Indians. The photograph was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1937 (accession number PHO 9927). Related images: M0005709, M0005711.

23 September 1938

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

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 2020.

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