M0004812: Headless bison from Breuie's La Caverne d'Altamina, 1906

Date:
October 1936
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/39/5
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M0004812: Headless bison from Breuie's La Caverne d'Altamina, 1906. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Also known as

Previous title, replaced Oct 2021: Bison sans tete from Breuie's La Caverne d'Altamina, 1906

Description

Headless bison, polychrome, from the Cave of Altamina, Cantabria, Spain. Image taken from La caverne d'Altamira à Santillane près Santander (Espagne) par Émile Cartailhac et l'abbé Henri Breuil.

Publication/Creation

October 1936

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

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 2022.

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