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Transcribe Wellcome
  • Introduction
  • Terminology and language
  • RESEARCHING THE MUSEUM & LIBRARY
    • Documentation Systems
      • Museum Accession Numbers
      • Old Registration System
      • New Registration System
      • Library Accessions
      • Library Shelfmarks
      • Paintings
      • Photographs
      • Prints and Drawings
    • Classification
      • Sections
      • Cultures
      • Materials
      • Collections Abbreviations
    • People
      • Alphabetical list of staff
        • Lander, Kathleen
        • Amoruso, Arthur
        • Barber-Lomax, John Walker
        • Barnard, Cyril Cuthbert
        • Bishop, W.J.
        • Borer, Mary Cathcart
        • Boscawen, William St Chad
        • Bourne, Henry
        • Britchford, W.J.
        • Brookes, Mr
        • Burgess, Renate
        • Burstein, S. Rosa
        • Carline, George R.
        • Chadburn, Mr
        • Chatterjee, B.
        • Chiang Yee
        • Clarke, Edwin
        • Comins, Mr
        • Cooper-Reade, J.B.
        • Cox, R.M.
        • Crellin, John K.
        • Dance, Enid
        • Daukes, S.H.
        • Davis, Walter
        • Dean, A.L.
        • Duncum (Pyecraft), Barbara
        • Dykes, R.
        • Earnshaw, C.A.
        • Freeman, E.J.
        • French-Sheldon, May
        • Gardner, S.B.
        • Gaskell, E.
        • Gaster, Theodor
        • Georgievsky, Catherine
        • Gibson, Miss
        • Haggis, Alec W.J.
        • Hewitt, Charles
        • Hipkins, G.J.
        • Holz, Dorothy
        • Hooper, D.
        • Huck, T.W.
        • Johnston-Saint, Peter (Captain)
        • Jones, Miss
        • Keighley, Mr
        • Kemp, P.M.
        • Kidd, R.H.
        • Lacaille, A. Donald
        • Lane, Tom
        • Lillico, Joan
        • Malcolm, Louis William Gordon
        • Mall, Paira
        • Marmoy, Charles
        • Michieli, John
        • Moorat, Samuel Arthur Joseph
        • Port, Harry
        • Powell, H.J.
        • Poynter, F.N.L.
        • Prideaux, W.R.B.
        • Rainsford-Hannay, Margaret
        • Raymont (Braunholtz), Joan
        • Rowbottom, Margaret
        • Sambon, Louis Westenra
        • Samson, Otto William
        • Shawe, J.
        • Shirreff, Frances Gordon
        • Sinel, Joseph William
        • Sizer, C.A.
        • Smith, Miss
        • Spielmann, Marion Harry Alexander
        • Stow, Harry
        • Swinstead, A.E.H.
        • Thompson, Charles John Samuel
        • Underwood, Edwin Ashworth
        • Uribe, Julio (Major)
        • Webb, Mr
        • Welch
        • Wilkes, Mr
        • Winder, Marianne
      • Collecting Agents
        • Blackman, Winifred Susan
        • Bolinder, Gustav
        • Church Missionary Society
        • Jeffreys, Mervyn D.W.
      • Private Collectors
        • Amherst, William Tyssen-Amherst
        • Canaan, Tawfiq
        • Debes Davies, Rachel
        • Gorga, Evangelista
        • Hewlett, William
        • French-Sheldon, May
        • Iles, Isaac
        • Lovett, Edward
        • Moore-Guggisberg, Lillian Decima
    • Wellcome Places
      • Aldersgate Street
      • Beckenham
      • Bushey Hill Road
      • Crystal Palace Road
      • Dartford Works
      • Easley Mews
      • Henrietta Street
      • Marylebone High Street
      • Portman Square
      • Sans Walk
      • Stanmore
      • Stratford Mews
      • Wigmore Street
      • Willesden
    • Auction Houses
    • Wellcome Organisations
      • Burroughs Wellcome & Company (BW & Co.)
      • Epworth & Co.
      • Historical Medical Exhibition (HME)
      • Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Research (WBSR)
      • Wellcome Chemical Research Laboratories (WCRL)
      • Wellcome Foundation Ltd.
      • Wellcome Historical Medical Museum (WHMM)
      • Wellcome Institute of/for the History of Medicine (WIHM)
      • Wellcome Museum of Medical Science (WMMS)
      • Wellcome Physiological Research Laboratories (WPRL)
      • Wellcome Research Institution (WRI)
      • Wellcome Tropical Research Laboratories (WTRL)
    • Dispersals
      • The Ten Distributions (1950s)
      • Science Museum Departments
    • Bibliography
  • TRANSCRIPTION GUIDELINES
    • Wellcome Transcribers' Group
    • Getting Started
    • Library Registers
    • Museum Flimsy Slips
    • PHO Accession Registers
    • CC Accessions - Cabinet Cards
    • Science Museum Transit Registers
    • Museum Accession Registers
  • Contributing to Transcribe Wellcome
    • Transcribers
    • Recipient Museums & Libraries
  • About the Transcribe Wellcome dataset
    • Dispersals
  • Project Management
    • Batch checking - Flimsy slips (A sequence)
    • Batch checking - Library Accession Registers
    • Itemising batches for TW import and catalogue descriptions
    • Importing itemisation batches
    • Checking & importing visual batches
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  1. RESEARCHING THE MUSEUM & LIBRARY
  2. Classification

Cultures

Transcribed from the Nationality list in the 'Key to Abbreviations in Store File', dated 4 May 1928.

Code
Country

Afri

African

Be

Benin

Bur

Burmese

Egy

Egyptian

Esk

Eskimo

GK

Greek

IND

Indian

Jap

Japanese

MA

Maori

Mex

Mexican

Moor

Moorish

N.P.Ind

North American Indian, Alaska British Columbia

New

New Guinea

PER

Persian

PV

Peruvian

Rom

Roman (Etruscan)

Sou

Soudenese

Tib

Tibetan

Turk

Turkish

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