M0019327: Two photographs of two traditional healers, Central Africa

Date:: January 1963

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/172/15

Part of:: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive

Archives and manuscripts

Collection contents

Wellcome Trust Corporate ArchiveWT
- Direct activitiesWT/D
  - Library and MuseumWT/D/1
    - Images from the photographic libraryWT/D/1/20
      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0019316EA-M0019437WT/D/1/20/1/172
        M0019327: Two photographs of two traditional healers, Central AfricaWT/D/1/20/1/172/15

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced July 2022: Images of Medicine man, A)ready to work and B)at work

Description

Two photographs of two traditional healers from Uganda about to work and at work, taken during the Roscoe Expedition and published as the frontispiece to Roscoe, John: The soul of Central Africa: a general account of the Mackie Ethnological Expedition, 1922. Related images: V0031137EL and V0031137ER

Publication/Creation

January 1963

Physical description

2 photographs on 1 plate sheet film negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the items depicted in the glass plate negative: 581035i and 581038i

Notes

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.

Terms of use

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