M0015660: Anterior aspect of a human skull from Huarochiri, Peru, showing evidence of trepanning

Date:
January 1957
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WT/D/1/20/1/140/18
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M0015660: Anterior aspect of a human skull from Huarochiri, Peru, showing evidence of trepanning. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced March 2022: Trephination in Peru, anterior aspect of cranium from Huaro chiri , from Muniz's Primitive trephining in Peru

Description

Reproduction of a photograph published in Muniz, M.A and McGee, W. J: "Primitive trephining in Peru", Sixteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institiution 1894-95. Related images: M0015661

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January 1957

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1 photograph glass plate negative; 8.3 x 10.8 cm

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Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

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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 2021.

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