M0016054: Skull showing cranial elongation produced by circular constriction, Vanuatu

Previous title, replaced March 2022: Skull showing cranial elongation, Vanuatu Republic.

Photograph of the side view of a human skull from South-West Malekular, Vanuatu. It was included in the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum exhibition "Medicine of the Aboriginal Peoples in the British Commonwealth" held in 1952 and published in Catalogue of an exhibition illustrating the medicine of the aboriginal peoples in the British Commomwealth. The skull was presented to the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum by Mr C. Firmin Cuthbert. It is not held by Wellcome Collection.

1957

1 photograph glass plate negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the exhibition publication.

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 2021.

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