M0014368: Consultation Figures, Southern Nigeria

Previous title, replaced January 2022: Consultation Figures, Southern Nigeria

Two carved wooden consultation figures from Southern Nigeria. On the left is a male figure with horns and a large pipe. On the right is a male figure holding a bowl standing back to back with a female figure holding an infant. The items were acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in the early 1930s and accessioned in 1936 (accession number R5935/1936 and R5932/1936. The items were exhibited in the Museum's exhibition "Medicine of the Aboriginal Peoples in the British Commonwealth" held in 1952.

December 1955

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides entries for the items: acc. number R5935/1936

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.

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