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Deformities, Artificial

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Images referencing Deformities, Artificial

6 images from works
  • Cranial deformation: two skulls of Salish people. Photograph by G.S. Boice.
  • Three trephinated skulls of people who may have suffered from headaches or epilepsy, Papua New Guinea. Halftone.
  • Malaita, Solomon Islands: a man with shaped teeth. Photograph.
  • Nigeria: a man at Egbe with shaped front teeth. Photograph.
  • Cranial deformation in Bougainville. Photograph by T.J. Macmahon, ca. 1919.
  • Cranial deformation. Photograph by E. W. Pearson Chinnery.

Works from the collections

10 works

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    Nigeria: a man at Egbe with shaped front teeth. Photograph.

    | Reference: 645863i
    • Archives and manuscripts
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    M0003707: Skull with artificial deformities

    | Date: 27 November 1933 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/30/75
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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    Malaita, Solomon Islands: a man with shaped teeth. Photograph.

    | Date: [between 1900 and 1999?] | Reference: 645865i
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    Cranial deformation in Bougainville. Photograph by T.J. Macmahon, ca. 1919.

    MacMahon, T.J. | Date: 1919 | Reference: 644306i
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    Three trephinated skulls of people who may have suffered from headaches or epilepsy, Papua New Guinea. Halftone.

    | Reference: 21406i

Related topics

Skull - Abnormalities

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