M0005682EB: Operation of Subincision, Warrumanga Tribe, Central Australia
- Date:
- 23 September 1938
- Reference:
- WT/D/1/20/1/46/93
- Part of:
- Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Collection contents
About this work
Also known as
Previous title, replaced November 2021: Operation of Subincision, Warrumanga Tribe, Central Australia
Description
Reproduction of a photograph of a group of Warumunga men performing a subincision operation on another man. Published in Spencer, Baldwin and Gillen, F. J: The northern tribes of central Australia, London: Macmillan and Co.; New York : The Macmillan Company, 1904. A copy of the photograph was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1938 (accession number PHO 10723). Related images: M0005682
Publication/Creation
23 September 1938
Physical description
1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm
Related material
Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative
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 2021.
Terms of use
Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.
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Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed storesBy appointment Manual request