M0014472: A traditional healer from the Kakadu tribe sucking on the torso of a patient to remove a foreign body or evil spirit, Australia

Date:
January 1956
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WT/D/1/20/1/129/18
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M0014472: A traditional healer from the Kakadu tribe sucking on the torso of a patient to remove a foreign body or evil spirit, Australia. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced January 2022: Medicine man curing disease, Australia.

Description

Reproduction of a photograph of a traditional healer (possibly a ngangkari) from the Kakadu tribe, Australia, sucking on the torso of a patient to remove a foreign body or evil spirit, published in Stubbs, S. G. Blaxland: Sixty centuries of health and physick, London : S. Low, Marston & co, 1931. Related images: M0001901EA, V0015950.

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Publication/Creation

January 1956

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

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Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

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 2022.

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