M0012546: Young girl wearing brass spiral anklets and holding an umbrella. Ibo, Nigeria / M0012547: Man wearing a chain mail head-dress, Ghana

Previous title, replaced March 2022: Young girl wearing brass spiral anklets and holding an umbrella. Ibo, Nigeria

Previous title, replaced March 2022: Head-dress or torture, woven into hair at the age of puberty

Right-hand side of plate: Photograph of a young girl wearing brass spiral anklets and holding an umbrella taken in Ibo, Nigeria. This reproduction was taken from another photograph of this image accessioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum (PHO 1337) purchased from Dr. Gustaf Bolinder who took the photograph during his travels in West Africa, 1930-1931. Left-hand side of plate: Photograph by Kurt Lubinski of a Konkomba man in profile wearing a chain-mail head-dress which is woven into hair during puberty and cannot be removed. This reproduction was taken from another photograph of this image accessioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum (PHO 10541).

May 1952

2 photographs on 1 plate glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register for other photographic copies:PHO 1337 and PHO 10541

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.

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