M0005268: Rite of garden magic: food offerings left for spirits
- Date:
- 17 November 1937
- Reference:
- WT/D/1/20/1/42/98
- Part of:
- Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Collection contents
About this work
Also known as
Previous title, replaced November 2021: Antelope Altar, Walpi. The alter in the Antelope Kiva is a mosaic of sand, ceremonially made, in brown, red, white, yellow, green and black. The zigzag lines typifying lightening which brings rain. Around it stand clan emblems, fetishes, priests' jugs and bahos, or paryer-sticks made of two sticks tied together with a bundle of feathers; also bowls of sacred cornmeal and rattles.
Description
Reproduction of a photograph of religious food offerings left for spirits, described as "Rite of garden magic. An offering of cooked food is exposed to the spirits for some time in the garden". Originally published in Argonauts of the western Pacific : an account of native enterprise and adventure in the archipelagoes of Melanesian New Guinea by Bronislaw Malinowski, Routledge & sons, 1922. Photograph acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum courtesy of Fay Cooper Cole.
Publication/Creation
17 November 1937
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.
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed storesBy appointment Manual request