M0005674: A Banara man and a Sara man displaying their teeth

Previous title, replaced November 2021: Cosmetic dentistry, Banara man and Sara man.

Photographs of two men from near Lake Chad, one Masa (also known as Banana) and one Sara, displaying their front teeth which have been cosmetically altered. The photographs were part of a set of six showing African and Malay cosmetic dentistry that was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1938 (accession number PHO 10867).

September 1938

2 photographs on 1 plate glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

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.

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