M0011845/M0011845EA/M0011845EB: Photograph of a cast of a carved shaft straightener of mammoth tusk, from the Magdalenian peoples in the Upper Palaeolithic period

Date:: 1951

Reference:: WT/D/1/20/1/105/47

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        "M" series glass plate negatives: M0011799-M0011901WT/D/1/20/1/105
        M0011845/M0011845EA/M0011845EB: Photograph of a cast of a carved shaft straightener of mammoth tusk, from the Magdalenian peoples in the Upper Palaeolithic periodWT/D/1/20/1/105/47

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M0011845/M0011845EA/M0011845EB: Photograph of a cast of a carved shaft straightener of mammoth tusk, from the Magdalenian peoples in the Upper Palaeolithic period. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced May 2022: Cast of Magdalenian carved shaft straightener of mammoth tusk, Upper Palaeolithic period.

Description

Photograph of a cast of a carved shaft straightener of mammoth tusk, from the Magdalenian peoples in the Upper Palaeolithic period. Two images on one slide. The first (top) bears incised representations of masked imp-like figures, horses, a cervid's head, a serpent, birds, etc. from the region of Teyjat, Dordogne. The second image (bottom) shows the development of the cast showing the details of the carving.

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1951

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2 photographs on 1 slide glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

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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 2022.

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