Female genital excision, Ubangi Shari: an elderly Mbakwa-Manja woman with a knife for the operation. Photograph by A.M. Vergiat.

1937

1 photograph : photoprint ; sheet 23.5 x 16 cm

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A. M. Vergiat, Les rites secrets des primitifs de l'Oubangui, Paris: L'Harmattan, 1981 (repr. of Paris: Editions Payot, 1936), between pp. 104 and 105 ("Vieille femme Mbakwa-Manja et son couteau d'excision")

Wellcome Collection 644295i