M0017281: Illustration of a Vietnamese midwife expanding the vulvula with her feet, 1887

Previous title, replaced March 2022: Annamite midwife from, Witkowski, Histoire...1887

Illustration of a midwife refer to as an Annamite, which was previously used to refer to both people in the French protectorate of Annam in Central Vietnam and Vietnamese people more widely. Published in Witkowski, G.-J.: Histoire des accouchements chez tous les peuples, Paris : G. Steinheil, 1887

March 1959

1 photograph sheet film negative; 8.3 x 10.8 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

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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