M0003707: Skull with artificial deformities

Date:: 27 November 1933

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/30/75

Part of:: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive

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Wellcome Trust Corporate ArchiveWT
- Direct activitiesWT/D
  - Library and MuseumWT/D/1
    - Images from the photographic libraryWT/D/1/20
      - Photographic library: "M" seriesWT/D/1/20/1
        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0003634-M0003732WT/D/1/20/1/30
        M0003707: Skull with artificial deformitiesWT/D/1/20/1/30/75

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M0003707: Skull with artificial deformities. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Pre-Columbian of a male skull showing unusual association

Description

Photographic print of a male skull of an individual from pre-Hispanic Americas. The image shows unusual association, specifically a type of head deformation used by the Aymara people, a depressed skull fracture and trephining by cutting method.

Publication/Creation

27 November 1933

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 8 x 11 cm

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2021.

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