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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. People
  3. Private Collectors

Canaan, Tawfiq

Tawfiq Cana'an توفيق كنعان Life dates: 1882-1964. Palestinian medical doctor, ethnographer and collector.

Amulets from his collection were acquired in 1930-31 by Peter Johnston-Saint on behalf of WHMM. See collections dossier WA/HMM/CM/Col/20 and the online article A symbol of a lost homeland by Yasmeen Abdel Majeed, 2020.

Biography

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tawfiq_Canaan

WA/HMM archives

  • WA/HMM/CM/Col/20 - Collections dossier. Includes summary of collection history and amulet registration numbers. Biographical note on Dr Canaan.

  • WA/HMM/CO/Ear/457 - letter to Dr Kanaan dated 16 April 1913, requesting loan of charms and amulets for the Historical Medical Museum. Annotated 'No record in Loans Register'.

  • WA/HMM/RP/Jst/B.6 - Peter Johnston-Saint's diary, 6 March 1930. Describes first meeting with Tawfiq Canaan in Jerusalem, and meeting Canaan's sister. (starting on page image 45)

  • WA/HMM/CO/Sai/D.7 – letter to Dr Canaan from Peter Johnston-Saint 1944 (starting page image 119)

  • WA/HMM/TR/Abc/C.4/1 - Transfer documentation. Includes 1984 gift agreement with University of Oxford, Pitt Rivers Museum (starting on page image 343). Gift to Pitt Rivers includes 290 amulets from the Canaan collection (page image 349)

Sources

  • Nashef 2002

  • al-Jubeh 2005

  • Publications by Tawfiq Canaan held in Wellcome Collection’s library

Tags: private collector; Middle East

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