M0002788: Three tsantsa, or shrunken heads, with strings from mouth

Previous title, replaced May 2020: Shrunken heads with strings from mouth.

Photograph of three shrunken heads with long hair and strings from the mouth. They were previously part of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum but are not held by Wellcome Collection.

28 January 1932

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.

Copyright held by Wellcome Collection

This item has been digitised but is not available online. Email collections@wellcomecollection.org to request access.