M0012573: Woman showing the effects of lip plugs, Sudan

Date:: July 1952

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/112/39

Part of:: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive

Archives and manuscripts

Collection contents

Wellcome Trust Corporate ArchiveWT
- Direct activitiesWT/D
  - Library and MuseumWT/D/1
    - Images from the photographic libraryWT/D/1/20
      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0012529-M0012638WT/D/1/20/1/112
        M0012573: Woman showing the effects of lip plugs, SudanWT/D/1/20/1/112/39

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced March 2022: Image showing the use of lip plugs among the Gour people of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.

Description

Photograph of a woman showing the effects of lip plugs on the skin taken in Sudan. This reproduction was made from the 4th Report of the Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories in 1911, specifically an essay by Captain R G Anderson of the Egyptian Army entitled 'Some tribal customs in their relation of the Nyam-Nyam and Gour people inhabiting the Eastern Bahr-el-Ghazal'.

Publication/Creation

July 1952

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 8.3 x 10.8 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the item depicted in the glass plate negative: WA/PHO/Trl/B.3

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 2022.

Terms of use

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