M0017883: Wooden divination tablets, Mashona, Southern Zimbabwe

Date:
April 1960
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/159/89
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M0017883: Wooden divination tablets, Mashona, Southern Zimbabwe. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Divination plaques of wood, Mashona, Southern Zimbabwe.

Description

Photograph of a set of four wooden divination tablets used by traditional healers, from Southern Zimbabwe, mounted for display. They were purchased at auction by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in in 1933 and accessioned in 1936 (accession number R485491936). They are not held by Wellcome Collection. Related images: M0017880, M0017881, M0017882, M0017883

Publication/Creation

April 1960

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the items: R4849/1936

Copyright note

Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

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 2022.

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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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