Milking cobras at the Pasteur Institute, Bangkok, Thailand, ca. 1927

Clip from "John W.S. and Arthur D. Foster's World Travel Films (ca. 1927)", an incomplete edited amateur film documenting an around-the world trip. This clip from the silent, black & white film shows men 'milking' cobras for their venom at the Pasteur Institute, Bangkok, Thailand.

This film is from the collections of the Human Studies Film Archives, Smithsonian Institution. For more information, view the complete catalog record: http://siris-archives.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=all&source=~!si...

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Education

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• archival
• documentary
• historical
• history
• snake
• medicine
• culture