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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Conditions governing reproduction:
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Finding aids:
Collection level description available in the Institute's reading room.
Archival Information
Archival history:
Immediate source of acquisition:
Presented by the author, 7 Jan 1927.
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Related material:
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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
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