M0019110: Zande person mutilated as punishment for adultery

Date:: June 1962

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/170/10

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    - Images from the photographic libraryWT/D/1/20
      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0019101-M0019196WT/D/1/20/1/170
        M0019110: Zande person mutilated as punishment for adulteryWT/D/1/20/1/170/10

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M0019110: Zande person mutilated as punishment for adultery. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced October 2020: S. Sudan's penal mutilation: amputation of hands for adultery

Description

Reproduction of a photograph on a Zande person mutilated as punishment for adultery. The reproduction is from Bryk, Felix: Die Beschneidung bei Mann und Weib: ihre Geschichte, Psychologie und Ethnologie, Neubrandenburg: G. Feller, 1931, p.103, figure 6. The Azande are an ethnic group of North Central Africa. Related images: M0005708

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June 1962

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 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 2022.

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