M0005874: A man pretending to cut a boy's throat as part of a healing practice
- Date:
- 03 November 1938
- Reference:
- WT/D/1/20/1/48/80
- Part of:
- Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Collection contents
About this work
Also known as
Previous title, replaced August 2020: Butcher pretending to cut a boy's throat
Description
Reproduction of a photograph with the caption "The butcher pretending to cut a boy's throat to cure him of huskiness". The photograph was reproduced in Blackman, Winifred S.: The fell?h?n of Upper Egypt: their religious, social and industrial life to-day with special reference to survivals from ancient times, London: G. G. Harrap and Company [1927], p.213, figure 127. Related images: M0005873.
Publication/Creation
03 November 1938
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 2020.
Terms of use
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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Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed storesBy appointment Manual request