M0005857: Aboriginal Australian traditional healer treating a patient

Date:: 28 October 1938

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/48/63

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  - 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: M0005789-M0005896WT/D/1/20/1/48
        M0005857: Aboriginal Australian traditional healer treating a patientWT/D/1/20/1/48/63

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M0005857: Aboriginal Australian traditional healer treating a patient. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced August 2020: Specialist at work on a case that buffles ordinary treatment

Description

Reproduction of a photograph showing a traditional healer from Northern Queensland, Australia, treating a patient by invoking spirit agency. Published in Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir: Manners and Customs of Mankind, London : Amalgamated Press, 1931

Publication/Creation

28 October 1938

Physical description

1 photograph 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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