M0000698: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: showcase of tsantsa, or shrunken heads

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Showcase of shrunken heads.

Photograph of a showcase of tsantsa, or hrunken heads, exhibited by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum. The museum acquired and displayed a number of tsantsa from South America, many from Ecuador. They are not held by Wellcome Collection, many are held by the Science Museum.

01 January 1930

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

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.

This item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.