M0005709: Healing ceremony, Panama

Previous title, replaced August 2020: Two images of Choco Indians

Photograph from 6 February 1937 of a healing ceremony being undertaken by an Emberán traditional healer on a boy lying underneath a shelter bearing magical symbols. In the foreground is a fetish with outstretched arms. The Emberá are an indigenous people of Panama and Columbia, previously known as the Choco or Katio Indians. The photograph was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1937 (accession number PHO 9926). Related images: M0005709EB, V0031112

23 September 1938

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the item depicted in the glass plate negative: 580820i

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 2020.

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