RefNo | MS/873/1/16 |
Level | Item |
Title | Photograph, "Experimental monkey...", photographer unknown |
Date | 1908-1910 |
Description | Original caption verso: "Experimental monkey SS Com" [Sleeping Sickness Commission]. A live monkey [apparently an adult velvet monkey] is shown tethered on the sloped roof of a raised wooden hutch, one of three outdoor hutches visible in the scene. A Ugandan worker stands behind. Monkeys were used by the Sleeping Sickness Commission as test subjects in the transmission of Trypansoma. |
Extent | 1 b&w print |
Format | Photograph |
PhysicalDescription | Printed on velox paper, landscape format |
Dimensions | 81x106mm |
AccessStatus | Open |