M0008993: Plaster model of a medicine man sucking out disease: front view

Date:: 03 April 1944

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/78/95

Part of:: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive

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      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0008898-M0008998WT/D/1/20/1/78
        M0008993: Plaster model of a medicine man sucking out disease: front viewWT/D/1/20/1/78/95

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Previous title, replaced October 2020: Sculpted image of Ojibway medicine man sucking out disease

Description

Photograph of the front view of a plaster model of a medicine man sucking out disease from a patient with a bone tube, as practiced by the Ojibwe people of North America (also known as Ojibwa or Chippewa). The model was made by Jane Jackson and is based on a drawing by Harold L. MacDonald published in the Seventh Annual report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1885-1886. The model was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1944 (accession number R7/1944). It is now held by the Science Museum (object number A656667). Related images: M0008994, M0008995

Publication/Creation

03 April 1944

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 16.5 x 21.5 cm

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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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