M0019747: Four wooden divining plaques, Mashonaland, Zimbabwe

Previous title, replaced July 2022: A medicine man's divining plaques, Mashonland, Zimbabwe, Africa.

Photograph of four wooden divining plaques incised with a geometric pattern used by a traditional healer. It was purchased at auction by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1933 and accessioned in 1936 (accession number R4860/1936)

December 1963

1 photograph sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item: R4860/1936

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.