IDENTITY STATEMENT
Reference code(s): GB 1446 MS 7
Held at: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
Title: STANNUS, Hugh Stannus (1877-1957): paper on tattooing in Nyasaland
Date(s): [1927]
Level of description: collection
Extent: 1 item
Name of creator(s): Stannus | Hugh Stannus | 1877-1957 | physician | Major
CONTEXT
Administrative/Biographical history:
Hugh Stannus Stannus, consulting physician and specialist in tropical diseases was appointed Medical Officer to the King's African Rifles in British Central Africa [Malawi], in 1905 and carried out research into various tropical diseases particularly pellagra and sleeping sickness. He made an intense study of anthropology and ethnology and published a monograph on the Wa-Yao people. He was elected FRCP in 1931. In 1914 he became principal medical officer of the Nyasa-Rhodesian forces operating in Southern German East Africa [Tanganiyka (Tanzania)].
CONTENT
Scope and content/abstract:
Paper by Hugh Stannus entitled 'The practice of scarification (tattooing) among the natives of Nyasaland', [1927], including diagrams and map.
ACCESS AND USE
Language/scripts of material: English
System of arrangement:
Single item
Conditions governing access:
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Conditions governing reproduction:
Photocopies and scans for personal research only may be arranged at the discretion of the archivist; charges apply; in all cases forms governing use of copies must be signed; use of digital cameras is not allowed.
Physical characteristics:
11 leaves, plates, map (photos.). 33 x 20 cm. Typescript. Grey paper boards, brown cloth spine.
Finding aids:
Collection level description available in the Institute's reading room.
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information:
Accruals:
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Presented by the author, 7 Jan 1927.
ALLIED MATERIALS
DESCRIPTION NOTES
Archivist's note: Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.
Date(s) of descriptions: Apr 2008