Plaster model of medicine man sucking out disease with bonetube

Made:: 1943 in London

maker:: Jane Jackson

Plaster model of medicine man sucking out disease (by means of a bonetube) of a prostrate patient, as practiced by Ojibway Indians, bronze painted, on large wooden base, made by Jane Jackson, 34 Criffel Avenue, London, SW1, England, 1943.

Details

Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A656667

Materials:: plaster and wood, base

type:: statues

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