M0019383: Yoruban female figure draped with cowrie shells, Nigeria

Previous title, replaced July 2022: Yoruban Figure of Eshu, draped with cowrie shells.

Photograph of a carved wooden figure, possibly of Eshu. It was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1962 and given accession number A301689.

March 1963

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession index card for the item: A301689

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.

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