M0001902EA: Reproduction of a photograph of two Arrernte people (an Aboriginal group in Central Australia) practicing Kurdaitcha, or a bone-pointing ritual / M0001902EB: Reproduction of a photograph of the Cloaca Maxima, Rome, Italy, one of the world's earliest sewage systems

Date:
22 May 1931
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/17/91
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About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Sixty centuries of health and physick.
Previous title, replaced May 2020: Sixty centuries of health and physick.

Description

Two images on one negative: the first image shows a photograph of two Arrernte people (an Aboriginal group in Central Australia) practicing Kurdaitcha, or a bone-pointing ritual, reproduced from W. Baldwin Spencer, W. and Gillen, F. J.: The Arunta, London: Methuen & Co., 1927, facing page 400. The second shows a photograph of the Cloaca Maxima, Rome, Italy, one of the world's earliest sewage systems. Reproduced from Stubbs, S. G. Blaxland: Sixty centuries of health and physick : the progress of ideas from primitive magic to modern medicine, London: S. Low, Marston & co., ltd, [1931], facing page 400. Related images: M0001895, M0001897EA, M0001897EB, M0001899EA, M0001899EB, M0001900EA, M0001900EB, M0001901EA, M0001901EB, M0001903EA, M0001903EB, M0001904, M0001905EA, M0001905EB, M0001906EB, M0001911, M0008013, L0003745, L0003743, M0014472

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people should be aware that the item contains images of deceased persons.

Publication/Creation

22 May 1931

Physical description

2 photographs, 2 on 1 plate glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm photographic print; 11.2 x 7.6 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.

Terms of use

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.

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