M0005510: Skulls in a Kayan house, Borneo

Previous title, replaced November 2021: Skull trophies in a Kayan house

Reproduction of a photograph of several human skulls hung along a beam in a Kayan house. The photograph was published in Hose, Charles: The pagan tribes of Borneo, London, 1912. A print of the photograph was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1938 (accession number PHO 10809). Related images: V0037476

4 August 1938

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the item depicted in the glass plate negative: 31646i

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.