M0012417: Figure of a Haida Shaman

Date:
March 1952
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/111/2
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M0012417: Figure of a Haida Shaman. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced March 2022: Figure of a Haida Shaman, broken legs and starvation

Description

Photograph of a carved wooden figure memoralising a Haida Shaman showing causes of death through broken legs and starvation. This reproduction was taken from a photograph presented by G.P.L. Milnes from the Cranmore Ethnographical Museum, Chislehurst.

Publication/Creation

March 1952

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

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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