STANNUS, Hugh Stannus (1877-1957): paper on tattooing in Nyasaland

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 1446 MS 7
Held at	: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.therai.org.uk/ ›
Full 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 & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Single item

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Finding aids:

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Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented by the author, 7 Jan 1927.

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Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Entry compiled by Sarah Drewery.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Apr 2008