Skull and mandible of female skeleton

Made:: 1000-1800 in United States

Skull and mandible of female skeleton, from San Miguel Island, California, United States; prehistoric Indian, with flint spearhead impaled in left temple, ex. Moadie collection

Details

Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A631117

Materials:: skull, bone and spearhead, flint

Measurements:: length 210 mm
width 150 mm
height 155 mm
spearhead, approx.: length 55 mm
spearhead: width 32 mm

type:: human remains and skulls

credit:: Wellcome Trust

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