M0005271: Three images of a man looking to the sky and making a concoction, Katla, South Africa

Date:
November 1937
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/43/2
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Contains: 3 images

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Credit

M0005271: Three images of a man looking to the sky and making a concoction, Katla, South Africa. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced November 2021: Dorako man making medicine and prevent the rain from falling

Description

Reproduction of three photographs of a man possibly making medicine to prevent it raining. Two images show the man raising his arms to the sky. The third shows the man making a concoction. Originally published in the journal Man, from the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland

Publication/Creation

November 1937

Physical description

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

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

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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