M0013693: A woman whose skull has been shaped through artificial cranial modification, Vancouver Island, British Columbia

Previous title, replaced January 2022: Cranial deformation, Koskimo people, Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

Reproduction of two photographs of a Koskimo First Nation woman whose skull has been shaped through artificial modification, also known as artificial deformation, or head flattening, from a Jesup North Pacific Expedition publication.

October 1954

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

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.