M0016050: Anthropomorphic flute ornament, New Guinea

Previous title, replaced March 2022: Anthropomorphic flute ornament - male effigy, New Guinea.

Carved wooden effigy: a male figure with a boar's tusk through the nasal septum. From the Mundugumor people, Yuat River, Sepik River area, New Guinea. It was included in the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum exhibition "Medicine of the Aboriginal Peoples in the British Commonwealth" held in 1952 and published in Catalogue of an exhibition illustrating the medicine of the aboriginal peoples in the British Commomwealth. It was purchased by the Museum in 1931 and accessioned in 1937 (accession number R4150/1937). It is not held by Wellcome Collection.

1957

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item: accession number R4150/1937. It also holds the publication.

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 2021.

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