M0009573: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: "Hall of Primitive Medicine", display of tsantsa, or shrunken heads

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Wellcome Historical Medical Museum, shrunken heads.

Photograph of a display of skulls and shrunken heads in the musuem's "Hall of Primitive Medicine". 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.

30 August 1946

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 is held by Wellcome Collection

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