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  • Wound Man

    Description:
    A healing fetish figure from the Bakongo people of the lower Congo region of Africa. The fetish is a wooden "wound man" called a "ma moganga."
    Date:
    1850-1899

  • View of the Trent Room

    Description:
    View of the Trent Room with the portrait of physician Valentine Mott by James Henry Shegogue over the fireplace. Photographed by Richard McKee.
    Date:
    1964

  • View 3 of manikins

    Description:
    Various groupings of ivory anatomical manikins in the Trent Collection. All are of European origin. View 3.
    Date:
    17th or 18th century

  • View 2 of manikins

    Description:
    Various groupings of ivory anatomical manikins in the Trent Collection. All are of European origin. View 2.
    Date:
    17th or 18th century

  • View 1 of manikins

    Description:
    Various groupings of ivory anatomical manikins in the Trent Collection. All are of European origin. View 1.
    Date:
    17th or 18th century

  • Valentine Mott

    Description:
    Oil portrait of Valentine Mott, M.D. who was a pioneer vascular surgeon famous for ligation of great vessels for aneurysm. He was considered the leading American surgeon of the first half of the nineteenth century.
    Date:
    undated

  • Trephine or Trepan

    Description:
    Trephine or Trepan was a surgical instrument used to open the cranium. It was essentially a device to drill a circular hole in the head. The example pictured here had perpendicular teeth, a center pin and a screw button in the shaft of the barrel...
    Date:
    18th century

  • Trent Room in old Library

    Description:
    The Trent Room in the Duke University Hospital Library looking toward the fireplace from the doorway. View 1.
    Date:
    1964 ca.

  • Trent Room in old Library

    Description:
    The Trent Room in the Duke University Hospital Library looking toward the fireplace from the doorway. View 2.
    Date:
    1964 ca.

  • Trent Reception Buffet Table

    Description:
    The Buffet table at the reception Mrs. Semans gave in her home following the Trent Room dedication.
    Date:
    1956