M0001901EA: Reproduction of a photograph of a traditional healer from the Kakadu tribe sucking on the torso of a patient to remove a foreign body or evil spirit, Australia / M0001901EB: Reproduction of two illustrations depicting the gathering of samples and compounding drugs
- Date:
- 22 May 1931
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- WT/D/1/20/1/17/90
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- Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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Two images on one negative: 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 (top), and two illustrations depicting the gathering of samples and compounding drugs (bottom). Reproduced from Stubbs, S. G. Blaxland: Sixty centuries of health and physick : the progress of ideas from primitive magic to modern medicine, London: S. Low, Marston & co., ltd, [1931], plate IV. Related images: M0001895, M0001897EA, M0001897EB, M0001899EA, M0001899EB, M0001900EA, M0001900EB, M0001902EA, M0001902EB, M0001903EA, M0001903EB, M0001904, M0001905EA, M0001905EB, M0001906EB, M0001911, M0008013, L0003745, L0003743, M0014472
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should be aware that the item contains images of deceased persons.
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