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Collection: wellcomecollection.wellcomecollection
Description: Cattle returning from the wells. Segadi 1912.
Country location: Sudan
Collection: wellcomecollection.wellcomecollection
Description: Slatin Pasha was appointed by General Gordon to the post of Governor of Darfur, Sudan, 1878 (?); British Inspector-General of the Sudan 1900-1914. Baron of the Austrian Empire, 1906; Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George, 1898, Knight Commander of the Victorian Order, 1908. Slatin was also an authority on Sudanese medicine: see R.C. Slatin, Additional notes to article by H.C. Zeki, 'The healing art as practised by the dervishes in the Sudan during the rule of the Mahdi and the Khalifa', Third report of the Wellcome Research Laboratories at the Gordon Memorial College Khartoum, London 1908, pp. 277-279. Another portrait of Slatin in oils is in the Royal Collection at St James's Palace (1997).
Country location: Sudan
Collection: wellcomecollection.wellcomecollection
Country location: Sudan
Collection: wellcomecollection.wellcomecollection
Description: Sir Henry Solomon 'photographic automatic kite trolley' aerial camera device used at Jebel Moya, Sudan.
Country location: Sudan
Collection: wellcomecollection.wellcomecollection
Description: Surgical instruments, Kordofan, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. In The Wellcome Historical Medical Museum Collection
Country location: Sudan
Collection: wellcomecollection.wellcomecollection
Description: A man grinds with large pestles and mortars. Photo, circa 1920
Country location: Sudan
Collection: wellcomecollection.wellcomecollection
Description: Sudanese Nuba shoes moulds. Pattens. Photo, circa 1920.
Country location: Sudan
Collection: wellcomecollection.wellcomecollection
Description: Guards outside Boulders House, Jebel Moya site, Sudan.
Country location: Sudan
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Description: Wellcome showing camp party the special features of a natural reservoir at the summit of Jebel Saqadi, 1912.
Country location: Sudan
Collection: wellcomecollection.wellcomecollection
Description: Sudan: barbering, tooth-drawing and cupping being practised. Photograph, ca. 1920.
Country location: Sudan
Collection: wellcomecollection.wellcomecollection
Description: Skeleton with a rule to indicate length and orientation, and with number painted on rock: 464.
Country location: Sudan
Collection: wellcomecollection.wellcomecollection
Description: The Khartoum Health Service: Sudanese men repairing buckets, Khartoum, Sudan. Photograph, ca. 1911.
Country location: Sudan
Collection: wellcomecollection.wellcomecollection
Description: Islamic holy men, known as fikas, write phrases from the Quran (the holy book of Islam) or mystic inscriptions on wooden boards, known as lohn or prayer boards. When the ink is dry, it is washed from the board and drunk or applied to the body to cure illness. This practice is known as El Mahara.
Country location: Sudan
Collection: wellcomecollection.wellcomecollection
Description: 15 MMS postage stamp showing the International year of malaria symbol over a figure presumably stricken with the disease. Blue and purple figures either side of the image clasp hands over the globe, showing unity. Stanley Gibbons catalogue number: Sudan : 167.
Country location: Sudan
Collection: wellcomecollection.wellcomecollection
Description: Illustration showing the extraction and mutilation of teeth.
Country location: Sudan
Collection: wellcomecollection.wellcomecollection
Description: Jebel Moya site, Sudan; the House of Boulders.
Country location: Sudan
Collection: wellcomecollection.wellcomecollection
Description: Watering cattle at Segadi Wells, 1912.
Country location: Sudan
Collection: wellcomecollection.wellcomecollection
Description: In 1884 General Charles G. Gordon was sent to Khartoum to evacuate the Egyptian garrison. He attempted to defeat the Mahdi, but in 1885 the Mahdi captured Khartoum and massacred General Gordon and the garrison. The dervishes (followers of the Mahdi) took control of all Sudan except for the Red Sea fortresses.
Country location: Sudan
Collection: wellcomecollection.wellcomecollection
Description: A Sudanese man suffering from mental illness is restrained with a y-shaped piece of wood bolted around his neck, Sudan. Photograph, 1947.
Country location: Sudan
Collection: wellcomecollection.wellcomecollection
Description: Hauling a boulder at Jebel Moya, Sudan.
Country location: Sudan
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Description: Various contraceptive methods: family planning in Sudan. Colour lithograph by Ahfad Reproductive Health Center, ca. 1999.
Country location: Sudan
Collection: wellcomecollection.wellcomecollection
Description: The Wellcome Tropical Research laboratories were founded by Sir Henry Wellcome at the Gordon Memorial College, Khartoum in 1903. From 1913 until their closure in 1935, the laboratories were under the control of the government of Sudan.
Country location: Sudan
Collection: wellcomecollection.wellcomecollection
Description: Dr Oldham attending a patient in the hospital tent, Jebel Moya, Sudan.
Country location: Sudan
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