Human skin, tattooed with flower, French, 1850-1900. Tattoo - black outlined and partially coloured flower or 4 leaf clover, areas of the tattoo are indeciperable or worn away. Skin - dark brown-sepia colouration, with some easily visible surface growth, possibly fungal or bacterial, forming small clusters of white-ish excrescences. Roughly square sample, uneven cross-section, almost transparent in some areas, fleshy in others.
Details
- Category:
- Anatomy & Pathology
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A808
- Materials:
- Skin, Human
- type:
- human remains and tattoo
- credit:
- Wellcome Trust
