M0005566: Illustration of two people using a string drill, or bow drill, to create fire, West Madagascar

Date:: 8 August 1938

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/45/78

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: M0005488-M0005589WT/D/1/20/1/45
        M0005566: Illustration of two people using a string drill, or bow drill, to create fire, West MadagascarWT/D/1/20/1/45/78

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M0005566: Illustration of two people using a string drill, or bow drill, to create fire, West Madagascar. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced November 2021: Fire-drilling, string drill in West Madagascar

Description

Reproduction of an illustration published in Frobenius, Leo: Childhood of man, London, 1909. A photograph of the illustration was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1938 (accession number PHO 10832).

Publication/Creation

8 August 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 2021.

Terms of use

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.

Subjects

Firemaking

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