M0018138: Three carved wooden vessels with geometric designs, West Africa

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Carved wood vessel with geometric design

Photograph of three carved wooden vessels from West Africa. From left to right: a vessel produced by either the Kongo (also Bakongo) people or Lele (also Bashilele) people, a vessel from the Congo and a vessel from the Congo, possibly produced by the Kongo (Bakongo) people. They were acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum as part of the Henry Pareyn Collection and given accession numbers A300772, A300782 and A300777. They are not held by Wellcome Collection.

August 1960

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession index cards for the items: acc. number A303772, acc. number A303782 and acc. number A303777

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.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.