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Mexico: a Mayan shaman or medicine man performing bloodletting on a patient seated on a fallen tree. Photograph, ca. 1920.
Lettering: Indian medicine man about to let blood by opening the temporal vein with a knife of volcanic glass ; Bloodletting by a Maya (Mexican) shaman using a snake's tooth [...] Bears accession number: PHO 1866. Lettering in pencil on photograph verso and on sheet attached to photograph. Bears printed stamp: "From Stratford Mews, 18v33"
Type of item
- Photographic prints
Type of item
- Photographic prints
Providing institution
Aggregator
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- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Rights
- Credit: Wellcome Collection
Creation date
- 1920
- 1920
Source
- V0031128
Identifier
- V0031128
- b1580998
- Iconographic Collection 580998i
- ycc29mek
Year
- 1920
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2019-06-09T11:30:17.403Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2019-06-09T11:30:17.403Z