Human skin, tattooed with two playing cards, French, 1850-1900. Tattoo - two playing cards executed in black, with bottom points meeting along one edge, a black spade and a heart in the centre of each card respectively. Design is crude and amateur, showing some feathering and potential beading. Skin - dirty white-greyish and brown at the edges, very thin cross-section, roughly oblong in shape.
Details
- Category:
- Anatomy & Pathology
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A803
- Materials:
- Skin, Human
- type:
- human remains and tattoo
- credit:
- Wellcome Trust
