Shrunken head, by Jivaro tribe, Ecuador

Made:: before 1929 in Ecuador

Details

Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A68229

Measurements:: height 125 mm
width 70 mm
length 110 mm

type:: shrunken head

credit:: Wellcome Trust

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