M0005701: Orokaiva men preparing a steam bath to drive out sickness, Papua New Guinea

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Reproductions of two photographs published in Williams, F. E: <i>Orokaiva society, with an introduction by Sir Hubert Murray</i>, London: Oxford University Press, 1930. Photographs of the two plates were acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1938 (accession number PHO 10950). The photographs show a group of Orokaiva men preparing a steam bath to drive out sickness. The Orokaiva are a people indigenous to Papua New Guinea, primarily in what is now Oro Province.

M0005701: Orokaiva men preparing a steam bath to drive out sickness, Papua New Guinea

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