M0006055: Reconstruction of a surgical operation in a late Stone Age culture

Date:
25 January 1939
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/50/56
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M0006055: Reconstruction of a surgical operation in a late Stone Age culture. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced August 2020: Reconstruction of surgical operation, from Stone Age.

Description

Reproduction of an artistic representation of a surgical operation on a woman's skull based on material and photographs from the region in Peru. The illustration is reproduced as the frontispiece in Moodie, Roy L: Paleopathology: an introduction to the study of ancient evidences of disease, Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois press, 1923.

Publication/Creation

25 January 1939

Physical description

2 photographs sheet film negatives; 10 x 12.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

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 2020.

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