M0008701: Kundaite, a witch finder

Date:: 1942

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/76/10

Part of:: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive

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Wellcome Trust Corporate ArchiveWT
- Direct activitiesWT/D
  - Library and MuseumWT/D/1
    - Images from the photographic libraryWT/D/1/20
      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0008692-M0008787WT/D/1/20/1/76
        M0008701: Kundaite, a witch finderWT/D/1/20/1/76/10

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Previous title, replaced October 2020: Kundaite, a witch finder and a Kundaite

Description

Two photographs of a man named Kundaite, a witch finder on Simbo, an island in the Solomon Islands previously known to Europeans as Eddystone Island. The photographs are reproduced as figures 1 and 2 in Hocart, A. M. “Medicine and Witchcraft in Eddystone of the Solomons.” The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. 55, 1925, pp. 229–270. Related images: M0008701

Publication/Creation

1942

Physical description

1 photograph 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 2020.

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