Male, ceremonial ancestral skull, artificially deformed, features rebuilt and painted forming mask, with wig, on wooden display stand, from Malekula, New Hebrides, 1871-1920
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A657201
- Materials:
- bone, human, teeth and hair
- Measurements:
-
approximately: height 270 mm
on mount: height 312 mm
approximately: width 220 mm
thickness 230 mm
length 165 mm
width 165 mm
- type:
- mask, human remains and skull
- credit:
- Wellcome Trust
