M0005600: Bust of a Kayan Lahwi woman wearing neck-rings to lengthen the neck

Date:
August 1938
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/46/11
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Credit

M0005600: Bust of a Kayan Lahwi woman wearing neck-rings to lengthen the neck. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced November 2021: Myanmar (Burma): a Padaung woma

Description

Process print of a bronze sculpture by Malvina Hoffman, c.1933, possibly produced for her exhibition "The races of mankind" commissioned by the Field Museum, Chicago, in 1930 and on exhibition from 1933 to 1968.

Publication/Creation

August 1938

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the item depicted in the glass plate negative: 644971i.

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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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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