M0015049: Cast of a horse's skull carved in a piece of reindeer antler

Date:
August 1956
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/134/36
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M0015049: Cast of a horse's skull carved in a piece of reindeer antler. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced October 2021: Horse's skull carved in piece of reindeer antler.

Description

Photograph of a cast of a piece of reindeer antler decorated with a carving of a horse's skull found at Le Mas d'Azil, Ariege. The cast was purchased by the Wellcome Historical Medical and accessioned in 1936 (accession number R12068/1936). It was transferred to the British Museum in January 1966.

Publication/Creation

August 1956

Physical description

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds the accession register which provides an entry for the item: acc. number R12068/1936

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Copyright is held by Wellcome Collection

Notes

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

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