M0002531: View from above and side of Ivory skeleton

Previous title, replaced May 2020: 2 views of skeletons in ivory

Photographs of a skeleton made from ivory inside a casket from above and the side. The item was previously part of the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum but is not held by Wellcome Collection.

10 November 1931

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.

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