M0016055: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum display of nine combs from various parts of the world

Date:
1957
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/143/96
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M0016055: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum display of nine combs from various parts of the world. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced March 2022: Combs, of various origins.

Description

Photograph of a display of combs from New Zeland, Admiralty Islands, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Borneo, Canada, Nigeria and Sudan. They were included in the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum exhibition "Medicine of the Aboriginal Peoples in the British Comm

Publication/Creation

1957

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the accession registers which provide entries for the items: R10539/1936, R104

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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 2021.

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