M0011698: Red earthenware head, showing teeth, Mayan: front view

Previous title, replaced April 2021: Red earthenware head, showing teeth, hollow, back broken away. Full face

Photograph of a Mayan hollow, red earthenware head showing teeth with the back broken away. The item was purchased at auction by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum in 1907 and given the object number A13142. It was given to the University of California, Los Angeles in 1966. Related images: M0011699

December 1950

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the index card which provides an entry for the item (image 233)

Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

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.

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