M0019289: Carved wooden ancestral effigy, New Guinea

Previous title, replaced July 2022: Ancestral effigy, carved wood, Sepik river, New Guinea.

Photograph of a carved wooden ancestral effigy, an anthropomorphic figure standing on a boar's head. From the Sepik river region of New Guinea. It was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum at an unknown point and accessioned in 1939 (accession number R3074/1939). It was removed from the Museum's holdings in 1965

December 1962

1 photograph sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item: R3074/1939

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.