M0005722: a Gurage woman tattooing another on the wrist

Date:
23 September 1938
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/47/33
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M0005722: a Gurage woman tattooing another on the wrist. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced August 2020: Tatooing in Abyssinia, two women of the Gurag' Tribe

Description

A photograph taken by Herbert Vladimir Meyerowitz (1900-1945) of a Gurage woman from Ethiopia tattooing another woman with blue colouring matter applied in the form of bracelets and rings to the hand and wrist. Related images: V0031200

Publication/Creation

23 September 1938

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: 645184i

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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