A Gazaland medicine man or shaman, equatorial Africa. Halftone after Dudley Kidd.

  • Kidd, Dudley.
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1900-1909
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21318i
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1900-1909

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1 print : halftone ; image 13.8 x 8.9 cm

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A Gazaland witchdoctor. The man is clad in a cotton shirt; his medicines are placed in the buck-horns forming his necklace; the gall bladder of a goat is fastened into the cap.

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Dudley Kidd, The essential Kafir, London: A.& C. Black, 1904, p. 134 (the same photograph and caption but on two separate pages)

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Wellcome Collection 21318i

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