M0005587: Drawing of a cranium modified through head flattening

Date:
August 1938
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/45/99
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M0005587: Drawing of a cranium modified through head flattening. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced November 2021: Deformed skull of Koskeemo Indian, Vancouver Island

Description

Illustration of a skull modified through circular constriction and elongation published in Flower, William Henry: Essays on museums and other subjects connected with natural history, London : Macmillan, 1898. A copy of the illustration was acquired

Publication/Creation

August 1938

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

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 2021.

Terms of use

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

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