M0012832: Wooden cylinder, Ghana

Date:
January 1953
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/114/66
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M0012832: Wooden cylinder, Ghana. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced January 2022: Cylindrical wooden soum

Description

Photograph of a wooden cylinder with four small bags containing power-giving substances attached to the sides, from Ghana, West Africa. This item was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum (R6071/1936). The accession register suggests this may be called a 'soum' and was used to find the causation of disease by human agency.

Publication/Creation

January 1953

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register for the item depicted in the glass plate negative:R6071/1936

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Copyright held by Wellcome Collection

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

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