M0012658: Yoruba bronze effigies showing pathological conditions

Previous title, replaced August 2022: Bronze Effigies showing pathological conditions

Photograph of two Yoruba bronze effigies showing elephantiasis of the scrotum and goitre, from Benin, Nigeria. These items were accessioned by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum (R5372/1936, R5371/1936) but are not held by Wellcome Collection. The photograph was included in the catalogue for a Wellcome Historical Medical Museum Exhibition illustrating the medicine of the aboriginal peoples in the British Commonwealth, London, 1952.

August 1952

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register for the items depicted in the glass plate negative:R5371/1936 and R5372/1936

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.

This item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.