Borneo: a boy with a nail (palang) through his penis. Photograph by Harrison W. Smith.

  • Smith, Harrison Willard, 1872-1947.
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[between 1900 and 1999]
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646151i
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[Borneo] : [publisher not identified], [between 1900 and 1999]

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1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 12 x 8 cm

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Attribution to Harrison W. Smith from exhibition label of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum on a similar photograph in the same collection (Wellcome Library catalogue no. 646144i): "Palangs. Used by natives of Borneo for insertion through the penis. Presented by Prof. Harrison W. Smith."

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Wellcome Collection 646151i

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