M0008704: Tools used to prepare the Kenyah dart-poison Ipoh

Date:: 1942

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/76/13

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: M0008692-M0008787WT/D/1/20/1/76
        M0008704: Tools used to prepare the Kenyah dart-poison IpohWT/D/1/20/1/76/13

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Previous title, replaced October 2020: Images related to Kenyan dart-poison

Description

Six photographs, four illustrating the tools used to prepare the Kenyah dart-poison Ipoh, one showing the finished poison and one showing a dart being shot through a blowpipe. The Kenyah people are an indigenous people of Borneo. The photographs are reproduced as figures 1 to 4 in Seligmann, C. G. “Note on the Preparation and Use of the Kenyah Dart-Poison Ipoh.”, The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. 32, 1902, pp. 239–244 . Related images: M0008703

Publication/Creation

1942

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

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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