M0005600: Bust of a Kayan Lahwi woman wearing neck-rings to lengthen the neck

Previous title, replaced November 2021: Myanmar (Burma): a Padaung woma

Process print of a bronze sculpture by Malvina Hoffman, c.1933, possibly produced for her exhibition "The races of mankind" commissioned by the Field Museum, Chicago, in 1930 and on exhibition from 1933 to 1968.

August 1938

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the item depicted in the glass plate negative: 644971i.

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.