M0018901: Carved wooden birds from a traditional healer's medicine bag, Cameroon

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Carved wooden birds of a medicine man, Cameroons, W. Africa.

Photograph of two carved wooden birds that were acquired as part of the contents of a medicine bag belonging to a traditional healer in Cameroon. Acquired by the Wellcome HIstorical Medical Museum in 1928 and accessioned in 1936 (accession number R5421/1936)

December 1961

1 photograph sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item: R5421/1936

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.