M0000018: African wooden statue depicting a woman holding her breasts
- Date:
- 03 June 1929
- Reference:
- WT/D/1/20/1/2/17
- Part of:
- Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Collection contents
About this work
Also known as
Previous title, replaced May 2020: Female statue holding breasts, African [?]
Description
Carved, wooden statue from the Congo area of Africa. The item was acquired at auction in 1925 by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1926 (accession number 26435) but is not held by Wellcome Collection.
Publication/Creation
03 June 1929
Physical description
1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm
Related material
Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item (acc. number 26435 image 112)
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 2020.
Terms of use
Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed storesBy appointment Manual request