M0006267: Female genital excision operation being performed on an Mbakwa-Manja girl

Date:
09 May 1939
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/52/49
Part of:
Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
  • Archives and manuscripts

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced August 2020: Excision operation being performed on a Mbakwa-Manja girl.

Description

Photograph of a female genital excision operation being performed by a group of women. Related images: M0006266, M0006268, V0031165

Publication/Creation

09 May 1939

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the item depicted in the glass plate negative: 644296i

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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