M0005578: Five Waima girls showing their tattoos
- Date:
- August 1938
- Reference:
- WT/D/1/20/1/45/90
- Part of:
- Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
- Archives and manuscripts
- Online
Collection contents
About this work
Also known as
Previous title, replaced November 2021: Illustrations of Waima girls showing tattoo
Description
Reproduction of a photograph of five Waima girls. Published in Seligman, C. G: The Melanesians of British New Guinea, Cambridge : The University Press, 1910. A copy of the reproduced photograph was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1938 (accession number PHO 10878).
Publication/Creation
August 1938
Physical description
1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm
Related material
Wellcome Collection holds the original publication the image in the glass plate negative appeared in
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.
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Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed storesBy appointment Manual request