M0010840: Kwanyama woman giving an enema to a boy

Previous title, replaced April 2021: Native mother of Kwanyama tribe giving an enema to her boy

Photograph of a Kwanyama woman in Angola performing an enema on a boy: the woman fills her mouth with the liquid which consists of water with a little soap and a little fire ash. According to the accession register, the photograph is part of a set taken at the homestead of the District Chief of Owangwe district, near Namakunde, Lower Cunene, South Angola. The negatives were loaned to the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum by Miss A. Powell-Cotton and the museum made copy negatives which were accessioned in 1939 (accession number for this photograph is PHO 11224). Related images: M0006587, M0006587EB, M0006588, M0006589, M0006590, M0006591, M0010840

September 1948

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item: PHO 11224.

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.

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