M0005270: Traditional healer preparing medicine, Kxatla, South Africa / M0005270EB: Traditional healer divining the cause of a patients illness, Transvaal, South Africa

Date:: November 1937

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/43/1

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        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0005270-M0005370WT/D/1/20/1/43
        M0005270: Traditional healer preparing medicine, Kxatla, South Africa / M0005270EB: Traditional healer divining the cause of a patients illness, Transvaal, South AfricaWT/D/1/20/1/43/1

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M0005270: Traditional healer preparing medicine, Kxatla, South Africa / M0005270EB: Traditional healer divining the cause of a patients illness, Transvaal, South Africa. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced November 2021: Rain maker preparing his medicine, Kxatla, South Africa

Description

Reproduction of two photographs. One is of a traditional healer preparing medicine. The patient is lying on the ground wrapped in a blanket, surrounded by a circle of women and children. The other shows a traditional healer divining the cause of a patient's illness. Both were originally published in The Bantu-speaking tribes of South Africa by I. Schapera, Routledge & sons, 1937, p.232

Publication/Creation

November 1937

Physical description

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

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.

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