M0006136: Anterior aspect of Cranium 4 from Huarochiri, showing trephinning

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Photograph of the anterior aspect of a skull from Huarochiri, 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 <i>Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology</i>, Washington: Govt. Print. Off, 1897, plate VIII. Related images: M0006134, M0006135, M0006137, M0006138.

M0006136: Anterior aspect of Cranium 4 from Huarochiri, showing trephinning

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