M0019296: Carved wooden staff, or tabu post, placed before the house of the chief's wife, Southern Nigeria

Previous title, replaced July 2022: S. Nigerian stave or post of carved wood with iron spike, placed before the house of the chief's wife

Photograph of a carved wooden post with an iron spike which would be placed before the house of the chief's wife. Originally from Southern Nigeria. It was purchased at auction by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1934 and given accession number A174857.

December 1962

1 photograph sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession index card for the item: A174857

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.