M0003747: Cicatrization on the back, Latuka people

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Cicatrization on the back, Latuka people.

Reproduction of a photograph of a man with cicatrization on his back (scar formation at the site of a healing wound). From the Latuka people, more commonly known as the Otuho people, South Sudan. Published in Hutchinson, Walter: Customs of the world : a popular account of the manners, rites and ceremonies of men and women in all countries, London: Hutchinson, 1913

December 1933

1 photograph glass plate negative; 8 x 11 cm

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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