M0005701: Orokaiva men preparing a steam bath to drive out sickness, Papua New Guinea
- Date:
- 23 September 1938
- Reference:
- WT/D/1/20/1/47/11
- Part of:
- Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Collection contents
About this work
Also known as
Previous title, replaced November 2021: Steam bath to drive out sickness, Orokaiva Papua, New Guinea.
Description
Reproductions of two photographs published in Williams, F. E: Orokaiva society, with an introduction by Sir Hubert Murray, London: Oxford University Press, 1930. Photographs of the two plates were acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1938 (accession number PHO 10950). The photographs show a group of Orokaiva men preparing a steam bath to drive out sickness. The Orokaiva are a people indigenous to Papua New Guinea, primarily in what is now Oro Province.
Publication/Creation
23 September 1938
Physical description
2 photographs on 1 plate glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm
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 2021.
Terms of use
Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed storesBy appointment Manual request