M0018111: Twelve razors, probably from the Ouesso District of the Republic of Congo

Date:
May-June 1960
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/161/45
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M0018111: Twelve razors, probably from the Ouesso District of the Republic of Congo. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Also known as

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Razors and pins, presumably from Belgian Congo, Africa

Description

Photograph of a display of twelve iron razors, possibly used in tattooing and thought to be from the Ouelle District of the Republic of Congo (Belgian Congo at the time of acquisition). The items were acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, possibly as part of the Henry Pareyn Collection, and given accession numbers (left to right) A300719, A300720, A300721, A300722, A300723, A300724, A300725, A300726, A300727, A300728, A300729, A300730

Publication/Creation

May-June 1960

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the accession index cards for the items: acc. number A303719-A303730

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Notes

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.

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