M0016039: Maori raku whakapapa: genealogical staff used as a mneumonic aid when reciting genealogy

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Carved wooden stave. It was included in the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum exhibition "Medicine of the Aboriginal Peoples in the British Commonwealth" held in 1952 and published in <i>Catalogue of an exhibition illustrating the medicine of the aboriginal peoples in the British Commomwealth</i>. It was purchased at auction by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1934 and accessioned in 1937 (accession number R3794/1937). It is not held by Wellcome Collection.

M0016039: Maori raku whakapapa: genealogical staff used as a mneumonic aid when reciting genealogy

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