M0005597: Woman consulting an oracle in a Chinese temple

Previous title, replaced November 2021: Illustration of woman consulting oracle in Chinese temple.

Reproduction of a photograph of a woman casting bamboo lots - sticks which are numbered to correspond with paper slips - held by the presiding monk and informing her as to whether her prayers are answered. Published in the Illustrated London News, 9th October 1937. A copy of the newspaper cutting was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1937 (accession number PHO 10518).

August 1938

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

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.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.