M0005586: Illustration of upper front teeth altered to fashion
- Date:
- August 1938
- Reference:
- WT/D/1/20/1/45/98
- Part of:
- Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Collection contents
About this work
Also known as
Previous title, replaced November 2021: Upper front teeth altered to fashion: African and Malay
Description
An illustration of African and Malay tooth modification published in Flower, William Henry: Essays on museums and other subjects connected with natural history, London : Macmillan, 1898. A copy of the illustration was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1938 (accession number PHO 10867).
Publication/Creation
August 1938
Physical description
1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm
Related material
Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative
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