M0003704: A skull with surgical bandage

Previous title, replaced May 2020: A surgical bandage found on a skull intact

Photograph of a print publication of a skull found intact with a cotton surgical bandage around it, of Native American origin. The back of the skull shows a method of 'fixing.'

27 November 1933

1 photograph glass plate negative; 8 x 11 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 2021.

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