M0017482EB: Congolese human figure carved in ivory / M0017483: Carved ivory amulet

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Grotesque human figure carved in ivory, Belgian Congo.

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Amulet, short length of carved ivory, Africa.

Photograph of two carved African figures. On the left is a carved ivory amulet with a head at either end. On the right is a female figure carved in ivory from the Kasai district of the Belgian Congo (now the Democractic Republic of the Congo). The amulet was purchased at auction by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1924 and accessioned in 1936 (accession number R14659/1936). The ivory figure was purchased at auction by the Museum and accessioned in 1937 (accession number R584/1937). It was removed from the Museum's holdings in 1966.

1959

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7

Wellcome Collection holds the accession registers which provid entries for the items: R584/1937 and R14659/1936

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.