M0005727: Batonga woman after having her front teeth removed

Date:
23 September 1938
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/47/38
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M0005727: Batonga woman after having her front teeth removed. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced August 2020: Batonga Beauty by having front teeth removed

Description

Photograph of a Batonga woman displaying the traditional practice of having her front teeth removed. The photograph was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in June 1932 (accession number PHO 1134).

Publication/Creation

23 September 1938

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the accession record listing the item in the glass plate negative: accession number 1134 (image 52).

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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