M0018905: Carved wooden mask: an animal head surmounted by a human head

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Carved wooden Eskimo mask, animal head surmounted by a skull-like human head.

Photograph of a carved wooden mask from the circumpolar region. It was acquired from Seattle by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum and accessioned in 1937 (accession number R917/1937). It was removed from the Museum's holdings in 1965

December 1961-January 1962

1 photograph sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item: R917/1937

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.

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