M0019149: Clay vessel used to cause leprosy by sorcery
- Date:
- September 1962
- Reference:
- WT/D/1/20/1/170/53
- Part of:
- Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
- Archives and manuscripts
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About this work
Also known as
Previous title, replaced October 2020: Clay vessel used in causation of leprosy by sorcery.
Description
Reproduction of a photograph of a clay vessel used to cause leprosy in an individual. According to the publication the vessel was filled with medicine and placed in the field of the intended victim under a stone slab. From the far North East corner of Tanganyika (modern day Tanzania). Published in Karasek, A and Eichhorn, A.: Beitraage zur Kenntnis der Waschambaa, volume 1, Leipzig: Teubner, 1911
Publication/Creation
September 1962
Physical description
1 photograph sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 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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