Mandible only of human skull

Made:: 1501-1900 in Peru

Mandible only of human skull, from Chorrillos, Lima, Peruvian, 1501-1900

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Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A88394

Materials:: bone

type:: human remains and skull

credit:: Wellcome Trust

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Mandible only of human skull

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