Human skull, cranium artificially deformed, facial region masked with clay and fibre and painted red and blue, ritual object in ancestor worship, from New Hebrides, 1851-1900
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A655855
- Materials:
- bone, ivory, teeth, clay, fibre and hair
- type:
- mask, human remains and skull
- credit:
- Wellcome Trust
