M0005597: Woman consulting an oracle in a Chinese temple

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Reproduction of a photograph of a woman casting bamboo lots - sticks which are numbered to correspond with paper slips - held by the presiding monk and informing her as to whether her prayers are answered. Published in the <i>Illustrated London News</i>, 9th October 1937. A copy of the newspaper cutting was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1937 (accession number PHO 10518).

M0005597: Woman consulting an oracle in a Chinese temple

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