Wellcome uses cookies.

Read our policy
Wellcome Collection homepage
All
Stories
Images
Catalogue
Events
31 results
  • Tusk of the narwhal (Monodon monoceros), or horn of the unicorn.
  • Image of a mammoth carved onto an elephant's tusk
  • A pack of dogs has tracked down a wild boar which in turn succeeded in burying its tusk in the abdomen of one of the dogs. Etching by J.E. Ridinger.
  • An elephant with a blind man wearing glasses and holding a stick who prods the mammal in numerous places including hanging from its tusk; an advertisement for AIDS awareness by lAshraya, the AIDS Awareness and Counselling Centre, a Project of IMA Blood Bank. Colour lithograph by Meridian Ad Systems, Cochin, ca. 1998.
  • Spanish amulets; teeth. 2 boar's tusks; 5 unidentified; young pig's molar; 3 fossil shark's ;
  • An ornate carved doorway in Zanzibar, with an enormous pair of elephant's tusks leaning against it.
  • Fossilised tusks, teeth and bones found at Thiede, part of Salzgitter in Lower Saxony. Lithograph by G. Scharf.
  • The antlers of an Irish fossil elk, and fossil teeth and tusks. Coloured etching by S. Springsguth, 1833.
  • Dissections of an elephant's trunk and tusks: seven figures. Etching by R. Vinkeles 1787/1800 (?), after P. Camper, 1774.
  • A puppy telling a wild boar that his tusks are a result of bad dentistry. Wood engraving by Anderson.
  • Evidences of bacteria in fossil bone
  • Bronze Benin head, Nigeria
  • Anthropomorphic flute ornament - male effigy, New Guinea.
  • Objects from the Hawaiian Islands. Engraving by J. Record, 1784, after J. Webber.
  • Ganesha enthroned holding his symbols with his rat. Watercolour drawing.
  • Vishnu in his incarnation as Varaha, the boar. Engraving, 1672.
  • A wild boar standing in a forest clearing in front of a rock. Etching by J. E. Ridinger.
  • Wisdom shows Britannia the measurements of the globe; figures representing other continents stand watching. Engraving by W. Swift after W.M. Craig.
  • James Pullen, sitting on the end of a wooden trolley upon which rests a huge model ship made by him. Process print.
  • The triumph of the physician Jacobus Castricus (Jacques van den Kasteele): allegorical figures of Practice and Theory accompany him in a chariot under a triumphal arch; in the foreground, honey, mint and artemisia and mythical beasts are tramping on the contorted bodies of plague, fever and dropsy. Process print after H. Holbein (?), ca. 1540.
  • Attributes of Beg-tse in a "rgyan tshogs" banner. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • Attributes of Beg-tse in a "rgyan tshogs" banner. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • Attributes of Beg-tse in a "rgyan tshogs" banner. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • Attributes of Beg-tse in a "rgyan tshogs" banner. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • Attributes of dPal-Idan Lha-mo (Rematī) in a "rgyan tshogs" banner. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • Attributes of dPal-Idan Lha-mo (Rematī) in a "rgyan tshogs" banner. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • Attributes of dPal-Idan Lha-mo (Rematī) in a "rgyan tshogs" banner. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • Attributes of dPal-Idan Lha-mo (Rematī) in a "rgyan tshogs" banner. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • Attributes of Putra-miṅ-sriṅ in a "rgyan tshogs" banner. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.
  • Attributes of Putra-miṅ-sriṅ in a "rgyan tshogs" banner. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.