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7 results within Person H. V. Meyerowitz

H. V. Meyerowitz

British artist and colonial administrator

Benin, Africa: a healing ceremony during which patients prepare for their illness to be dr…

Herbert Vladimir Meyerowitz

Wellcome Collection

Ethiopia: a Gurage woman tattooing another on the wrist. Photograph by H.V. Meyerowitz, 19…

Herbert Vladimir Meyerowitz

Wellcome Collection

Tatooing in Abyssinia, two women of the Gurag' Tribe. Blue colouring matter is applied in …

Herbert Vladimir Meyerowitz

Wellcome Collection

Benin, Africa: a woman and child with braided hairstyles.

Herbert Vladimir Meyerowitz

Wellcome Collection

Benin (?), Africa: a child holding a carved female figurine. Photograph by H.V. Meyerowitz…

Herbert Vladimir Meyerowitz

Wellcome Collection

Iloffa, Nigeria: a Yoruba girl selling dried rats and mice for medicinal use, from a baske…

Herbert Vladimir Meyerowitz

Wellcome Collection

Benin, Africa: a healing ceremony during which patients are swept with brooms after their …

Herbert Vladimir Meyerowitz

Wellcome Collection