M0008699: A man from Melville Island with an amputated leg / M0008699EB: Larakia [Larrakia] woman with the joint of her index finger cut off

Date:: 1942

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/76/8

Part of:: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive

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Wellcome Trust Corporate ArchiveWT
- Direct activitiesWT/D
  - Library and MuseumWT/D/1
    - Images from the photographic libraryWT/D/1/20
      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0008692-M0008787WT/D/1/20/1/76
        M0008699: A man from Melville Island with an amputated leg / M0008699EB: Larakia [Larrakia] woman with the joint of her index finger cut offWT/D/1/20/1/76/8

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M0008699: A man from Melville Island with an amputated leg / M0008699EB: Larakia [Larrakia] woman with the joint of her index finger cut off. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced October 2020: Melville island man and a larakia woman

Description

Two images on one negative: a reproduction of a photograph of the rear view of a man using crutches whose right leg has been amputed at the upper thigh when it was bitten off by a crocodile and a reproduction of a photograph of a woman holding her left hand to display her missing index finder. Published in Spencer, Baldwin: Native tribes of the northern territory of Australia, London: Macmillan, 1914. Related images: M0008700

Publication/Creation

1942

Physical description

2 photographs on 1 plate glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

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.

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