M0006134: Anterior aspect of an Incan skull, showing trephinning

Previous title, replaced August 2020: Anterior aspect of Squiers, Inca Skull, showing trephinning.

Photograph of a Peruvian Incan skull showing the marks of trephinning. The skull was obtained in Peru in 1865 by Ephraim George Squier and is now held by the American Museum of Ancient History. The skull is thought to date from between 1400 and 1530. The photograph was reproduced in Muniz, Manuel Antonio: "Primitive Trephining in Peru", extract from the Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, Washington: Govt. Print. Off, 1897, plate III. Related images: M0006135, M0006136, M0006137, M0006138.

09 March 1939

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

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 2020.

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