Human skull
- Made:
- 1851-1920 in Sierra Leone
Human skull, no lower mandible, with secret Poro Society rattle, attached,from Mendiland, Sierra Leone, 1851-1920
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A657217
- Materials:
- bone, ivory, teeth and rattle, iron
- Measurements:
-
height 137 mm
width 123 mm
thickness 184 mm
rattle: length 142 mm
max, rattle: width 22 mm
- type:
- human remains and skulls
- credit:
- Wellcome Trust
