M0018243: Carved wooden rattle and a ceremonial axe

Photograph of a wooden rattle and a ceremonial axe. The rattle is North American and was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum at an unknown point and given accession number A300270. It is not held by Wellcome Collection. The ceremonial axe has an iron blade and wooden shaft. Of unknown origin, but possibly Nigerian or West African. It was acquired by the Musuem at an unknown point and given accession number A300831. It was transferred to the Fowler Museum, University of California, Los Angeles in 1966.

September 1960

1 photograph glass plate negative; 8.3 x 10.8 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession index card for one of the items: A300831

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.

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