M0016052: Ancestral effigy with long nose or beak, Sepik River area, New Guinea

Date:
1957
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/143/93
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M0016052: Ancestral effigy with long nose or beak, Sepik River area, New Guinea. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced March 2022: Ancestoral effigy with long proboscis, New Guinea.

Description

Carved wooden effigy with elongated nose or beak and an elaborate headdress. It was included in the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum exhibition "Medicine of the Aboriginal Peoples in the British Commonwealth" held in 1952 and published in Catalogue of an exhibition illustrating the medicine of the aboriginal peoples in the British Commomwealth. It was purchased by the Museum in 1931 and accessioned in 1937 (accession number R4151/1937). It is not held by Wellcome Collection.

Publication/Creation

1957

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 item: accession number R4149/1937. It also holds the publication.

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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.

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