M0018773: Iron percussion bell with carved wooden handle, Cameroon

Photograph of an iron bell with wooden handle carved with an anthromoporhpic figure. It was purchased by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1932 and given accession number A104921. It was transferred to the Fowler Museum at the University of California, Los Angeles in 1966

August 1961

1 photograph sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession index card for the item: A104921

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.