M0011152: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum display: the manufacture of Magdalenian bone needles

Previous title, replaced April 2021: The manufacture of Magdalenian bone needles.

Mounted selection of bone needles and other tools, 15000 B.C. -11000 B.C. The items were acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum as part of the Schleicher Collection of French prehistoric archaeology and accessioned in 1937 (accession number R1797/1937). They were given to the British Museum in 1966.

November 1949

1 photograph glass plate negative; 8.3 x 10.8 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item (acc. number R1797/1937 image 201)

Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

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.

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