M0014369: Effigies of Shopono, God of smallpox

Previous title, replaced January 2022: Effigies of Shopono, God of smallpox. Yoruba, Nigeria

Four effigies of Shopono, God of smallpox, created by the Yoruba people, Nigeria. Three show the head sumounting a pillar and in one the god is shown kneeling on top of a pillar. The items were acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1946 (accession number R217/1946). They are not held by Wellcome Collection. The items were exhibited in the Museum's exhibition "Medicine of the Aboriginal Peoples in the British Commonwealth" held in 1952.

December 1955

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provide an entry for the item: acc. number R217/1946

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.