M0018756: Kneeling female figure with a swollen neck, Yoruba-Bini Country / M0018757: Seated male figure with elephantiasis of the scrotum, Yoruba-Bini Country

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Kneeling female figure, bronze, Yoruba-Bini Country

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Seated male figure with elephantiasis of the scrotum

Photograph of two bronze statues from Yoruba-Bini Country, West Africa. One is of a kneeling female figure holding a vessel or casket with gross bilateral enlargement of the neck. It was purchased at auction by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1928 and accessioned in 1936 (accession number R5371/1936). The other is of a seated man holding a knife in an advanced degree of elephantiasis of the scrotum. It was purchased at auction by the Museum in 1934 and accessioned in 1936 (accession number R5372/1936)

August 1961

1 photograph sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides entries for the items: R5371/1936 and R5372/1936

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.