M0019738: A doctor's fee: stylised implements used as currency

Previous title, replaced July 2022: A doctor's fee, stylised implements used as currency.

Photograph of stylised iron implements used as currency, either as a doctor's fee, hoe-money or spade-money. They were presented to the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum by Captain R. G. Anderson and accessioned in 1936 (accession number R15618/1936). They are mentioned in the Fourth report of the Wellcome Research Laboratories at the Gordon Memorial College, Khartoum, 1911.

December 1963

1 photograph sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item: R15618/1936

Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

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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