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Wooden case containing 60 small phrenological heads, by William Bally, Manchester or Dublin, 1831. Detail, black
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Wooden case containing 60 small phrenological heads, by William Bally, Manchester or Dublin, 1831. Black background.
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Selection of 9 heads from wooden case containing 60 small phrenological heads, by William Bally, Manchester or Dublin,
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Wooden case containing 60 small phrenological heads, by William Bally, Manchester or Dublin, 1831. From a colour
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Wooden case containing set of 60 small phrenological heads, by William Bally, Manchester or Dublin, 1831
Full set of sixty miniature heads designed for learning the positions of the phrenological organs in a wide variety of differently shaped heads with each head displaying one or more well-developed and/or deficient organs. The set was endorsed by Bally's friend Johann Gaspar Spurzheim (1776-1832) the co-founder of phrenology who also wrote the notes for each head in the accompanying booklet.
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- Category:
- Psychology, Psychiatry & Anthropometry
- Materials:
- incomplete, pine (wood) and plaster
- Identifier:
- A642804
- type:
- phrenological head
- credit:
- Spendlove
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