M0014543: Wooden Kareau statue to avert evil spirits, from the Nicobar Islands

Previous title, replaced January 2022: Spirit-scaring effigy (Kareau), Nicobar Islands. Male

Nude male figure with top hat and wings. The item was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1936 (accession number R3062/1936). It is not held by Wellcome Collection. The item was exhibited in the Museum's exhibition "Medicine of the Aboriginal Peoples in the British Commonwealth" held in 1952.

March 1956

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item: acc. number R3062/1936

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.