M0019119: Ivory statue of a pregnant woman, Africa

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Female figure with protruding abdomen, Ivory, Katanga, or Congo.

Photograph of an ivory effigy of a female figure with a protruding abdomen, likely to represent pregnancy. Thought to originate from , but it has certain features that are characteristic of Basonge items. It was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum at an unknown point and accessioned in 1937 (accession number R591/1937). It was removed from the Museum's holdings in 1965..

July 1962

2 photographs sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm photographic print; 9.3 x 12 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item: R591/1937

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.

This item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.