M0019904: Prehistoric human maxilla and mandible showing signs of disease

Photograph of the upper and lower jaw bones from a human skull showing signs of disease, from a prehistoric Ethiopian cemetary uncovered at Gebel Moya, Sudan. It was acquired by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum after Sir Henry Wellcome's archaeological excavations at Gebel Moya, 1911-1914 and accessioned in 1937 (accession number R424/1937)

July 1964

1 photograph sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item: R424/1936

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 2022.

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