M0006138: Superior aspect of Cranium 18 from Cuzco, showing trephinning

Previous title, replaced August 2020: Superior aspect of Cranium 18 from Cuzco (triple-trephined).

Photograph of the superior aspect of a skull from Cuzco, Peru showing marks of trephinning. The skull is part of the Muniz Collection, collected by Manuel Antonion Muniz, Surgeon-General of the Army of Peru. After he was exiled in 1893 he deposited the skulls with the Bureau of American Ethnology. The photograph was reproduced in Muniz, Manuel Antonio: "Primitive Trephining in Peru", extract from the Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, Washington: Govt. Print. Off, 1897, plate XXXVII. Related images: M0006134, M0006135, M0006136, M0006137.

09 March 1939

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

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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