M0019748: Divining bones, Southern Africa

Previous title, replaced July 2022: A medicine man's divining bones, Africa.

Photograph of two sets of divining bones used by a traditional healer. One set is from South Africa (recorded as Cape Colony in the accession register) and was purchased at auction by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1934 and accessioned in 1936 (accession number R4863/1936). The other is from south of the Zambezi river and was purchased at auction by the Museum in 1934 and accessioned in 1936 (accession number R6045/1936)

December 1963

1 photograph sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession registers which provide entries for the items: R4863/1936 and R60

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.

This item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.