M0006135: Posterior aspect of Cranium 2 from Huarochiri, showing trephinning

Date:
09 March 1939
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/51/34
Part of:
Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
  • Archives and manuscripts
  • Online

Available online

view M0006135: Posterior aspect of Cranium 2 from Huarochiri, showing trephinning

Public Domain Mark

You can use this work for any purpose without restriction under copyright law. Read more about this licence.

Credit

M0006135: Posterior aspect of Cranium 2 from Huarochiri, showing trephinning. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

About this work

Also known as

Previous title, replaced August 2020: Posterior aspect of Cranium 2 from Huarochiri.

Description

Photograph of the posterior 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 Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology, Washington: Govt. Print. Off, 1897, plate IV. Related images: M0006134, M0006136, M0006137, M0006138.

Publication/Creation

09 March 1939

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16 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 2020.

Terms of use

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

Where to find it

  • LocationStatusAccess
    Closed stores
    By appointmentManual request

Permanent link