Human skull with artificial articulation of mandible

Made:: 1831-1925 in Senegal

Human skull with artificial articulation of mandible, round trephination above right orbit possibly post mortem, from Senegal, African, 1831-1925

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A59001

Materials:: bone and ivory

Measurements:: max: height 170 mm
max: length 203 mm
max: width 125 mm
max, trephination: diameter 21 mm

type:: human remains and skull

credit:: Wellcome Trust

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Human skull with artificial articulation of mandible

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