M0017479: Rattle made of wood and nut shells, West Africa

Date:
1959
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/156/73
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M0017479: Rattle made of wood and nut shells, West Africa. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Also known as

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Rattle, West Africa

Description

Photograph of a wooden rattle with nut shells on the edges and an anthropomorphic figure carved in the middle, from West Africa. It was purchased at auction by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1934 and accessioned in 1936 (accession number R5435/1936). It was removed from the Museum's holdings in 1966.

Publication/Creation

1959

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item: R5435/1936

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Copyright is 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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