M0019742: Divining apparatus, Nigeria

Previous title, replaced July 2022: Divining apparatus, Ikot, Ekpene, Southern Nigeria.

Photograph of strings of dried fruit, cowrie shells and other items that would be thrown and answers obtained from the way in which they fell. Originally from Ikot Ekpene, Nigeria. The items were acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Musuem from the M. D. W. Jeffreys, Government Anthropologist for Southern Nigeria in 1931-1932 and accessioned in 1936 (accession numbers R10419/1936 and R10420/1936)

December 1963

1 photograph sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides entries for the items: R10419/1936 and R10420/1936

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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