Shrunken head decoration of beetle elytra and hair
- Made:
- before 1919 in South America
String of beetle elytra, with tuft of human hair at distal end, for decorating shrunken head, South American
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A27677
- Materials:
- insect shell and human hair
- type:
- human remains, human hair and pendant
- credit:
- Wellcome Trust
