M0005273: A suspended stone to prevent rain

Date:
November 1937
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/43/4
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Credit

M0005273: A suspended stone to prevent rain. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced November 2021: Stone tied up to keep rain away

Description

Reproduction of a photograph of a stone hanging from a string to prevent rainfall whilst hut building. The original photograph was published in E.E. Evans-Pritchard Witchcraft, oracles and majic among the Azande, Oxford, 1936.

Publication/Creation

November 1937

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 2021.

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