Human trophy skull
- Made:
- 1871-1920 in Papua New Guinea
Human trophy skull, lower jaw lashed to upper, with incised herringbone design on forehead, and attached by sennit cord to wooden double-pronged hook carved in form of unfinished, Janus headed figure, from New Guinea, 1871-1920
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A52741
- Materials:
- teeth, bone, teeth, ivory, cane, fibre, cord, sennit and hook, wood
- type:
- human remains and skulls
- credit:
- Wellcome Trust
