M0012356: Illustration of four men preparing arrows tipped with curare

Previous title, replaced March 2022: South American Indians preparing an arrow poison of curare.

Photograph of a drawing of four men preparing arrows tipped with curare, a toxic substance, in South America. This reproduction was taken from Tschivch, Alexander: Handbuch der Pharmakognosie, Leipzig : B. Tauchnitz, 1930-.

February 1952

1 photograph glass plate negative; 8.3 x 10.8 cm

Wellcome Collection holds a copy of the publication from which the image depicted in the glass plate negative has been reproduced.

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.

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