M0009573: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: "Hall of Primitive Medicine", display of tsantsa, or shrunken heads

Date:
30 August 1946
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WT/D/1/20/1/84/33
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M0009573: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: "Hall of Primitive Medicine", display of tsantsa, or shrunken heads. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced October 2020: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, shrunken heads.

Description

Photograph of a display of skulls and shrunken heads in the musuem's "Hall of Primitive Medicine". The museum acquired and displayed a number of tsantsa from South America, many from Ecuador. They are not held by Wellcome Collection, many are held by the Science Museum.

Publication/Creation

30 August 1946

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

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Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

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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Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.

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