Cuttle-fish eyes

Made:: 1867

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3 orange cuttle-fish eyes (?)
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3 orange cuttle-fish eyes (?), used by the Incas to put into the heads of mummies, in a circular cardboard box, eyes South American, 1867

Details

Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A680655

Materials:: organic material and box, cardboard

type:: eye - animal component

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