M0013911: Weapons originally belonging to the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum laid out at the British Museum

Previous title, replaced January 2022: Ethnographic collection: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum

Photograph of spears, other weapons and shields, originally belonging to the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, laid out in the Duveen Gallery at the British Museum for selection by various third party museums in 1955. The objects laid out illustrate only a small section of the weaponry collected by the Museum for the Ethnographic Collection. The photograph was reproduced in Symons, John : Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine: A Short History, London : The Wellcome Trust, 1993

March 1955

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds Symond's book

Copyright 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.