M0018518: Woven mat: strips joined by bands in colour, Zaire

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Woven mat, strips joined by bands in colour, Zaire.

Photograph of a grass mat divided into eight panels by ornamental black bands in a "broken stick" design. Part of the Henri Pareyn Collection of objects collected from Zaire. It was purchased at auction by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1931 (accession number R41360). It is not held by Wellcome Collection.

March 1961

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item: R41360

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.

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