Collection

Human skull collected by headhunters

Made:: 1851-1920 in Borneo

Human skull, jaws missing, cane threaded through hole in top, probably Dusan skull collected by Dyak headhunters, Borneo, 1851-1920

Details

Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A656097

Materials:: bone and cane

type:: human remains and skulls

credit:: Wellcome Trust

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