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Human calvarium with depression in right parietal possibly healed trephination, English, 500 BC to 1200

Human calvarium with depression in right parietal possibly healed trephination

500-1200 CE

Human skull, found in the Thames, no mandible, broken zygomatic arch, English, 18th or 19th century

Human skull

1701-1900

Skull used by Dr. T. Wilson Parry to demonstrate trephining using glass instrument with two trephination holes, one with excised bone held in place with wire, provenance unknown, 1801-1920

Skull used by Dr. T. Wilson Parry to demonstrate trephining using glass instrument with two trephination holes

1801-1920

Piece of skull used by Dr. T. Wilson Parry to demonstrate primitive method of trephining by boring with bow drill and stringing and scraping with flint flake, provenance unknown, 1801-1918

Piece of skull used by Dr. T. Wilson Parry to demonstrate primitive method of trephining

1801-1918

Piece of infant's skull, used by Dr. T. Wilson Parry to demonstrate primitive method of trephining by boring holes with hafted sharks tooth, provenance unknown, 1801-1918

Piece of infant's skull

1801-1918

Piece of infant's skull, used by Dr. T. Wilson Parry to demonstrate primitive trephination by scraping with flint, taking 15 minutes, provenance unknown, 1801-1918

Piece of infant's skull

1901-1918

Piece of infant's skull used by Dr. Wilson Parry to demonstrate primitive method of trephining, using obsidian flake, taking 8 minutes, provenance unknown, 1801-1913

Piece of infant's skull used by Dr. Wilson Parry to demonstrate primitive method of trephining

1801-1913

Frontal bone of skull used by Dr. Wilson Parry to demonstrate primitive method of trephining using flint scraper, provenance unknown, 1801-1913

Frontal bone of skull used by Dr. Wilson Parry to demonstrate primitive method of trephining using flint scraper

1801-1913

Piece of skull used by Dr. T. Wilson Parry to demonstrate primitive trephining, first and second stages of flint bored hole method, taking 77 minutes, provenance unknown, 1801-1918

Piece of skull used by Dr. T. Wilson Parry to demonstrate primitive trephining

1801-1918

Piece of skull used by Dr. T. Wilson Parry to demonstrate primitive trephining by push-plough method with flint, provenance unknown, 1801-1920

Piece of skull used by Dr. T. Wilson Parry to demonstrate primitive trephining by push-plough method with flint

1801-1920

Plaster cast of neolithic trephined human skull, with three holes, from original in National Museum, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, French, first half of 20th century

Plaster cast of neolithic trephined human skull

1901-1950

Front part of human skull, with lower mandible, masked with clay and fibre and painted red, black and white, with shell tongue, ritual object in ancester worship, from Gazelle Peninsular, New Britain, 1851-1910

Front part of human skull

1851-1910

Excavated portion of neolithic cranium, showing shanks of bone disease, French, 3500-2001BC

Excavated portion of neolithic cranium

3500-2001 BCE

Human cranium, possibly trephined, possibly Saxon

449-1066 CE

Skull of a human child or foetus

before 1937

Foetal skull on turned lignum vitae stand, lower jaw missing, domed cover of lignum vitae with iory finial, European, 1790-1810

Foetal skull on turned lignum vitae stand

1790-1810

Human skull, without mandible, unknown provenance, 1801-1920.

Human skull (without mandible)

1801-1920

Frontal bone of human skull, with signs of injury on left side, probably European, 18th or 19th century

Frontal bone of human skull

1701-1900

Skull, no mandible or facial skeleton, said to be young adult female, from Upper Nile region, inscription Egyptian, 2000 BC-1900

Human Skull

2000-1900 BCE

Human skull, calvarium only, trepanned left parietal, left half of frontal bone missing, sections wired together, probably European, 1801-1900

Human skull

1801-1900

Skull of an adult male, neolithic

before 1931

Human skull, no lower mandible, with wooden shaft carved in form of stylized crocodile projecting from nasal aperture, ceremonial, from Sepik River region, New Guinea, 1851-1920

Human skull

1851-1920

Bone bowl, made from the top of a skull, untraditionally carved, Maori, New Zealand, late 19th to 20th centuries

Bone bowl

1871-1931

Human skull, trophy, with jaws laced together with cane strips, forehead decorated with incised triangle, from Fly River area, New Guinea, 1871-1920

Human skull

1871-1920

Male, ceremonial ancestral skull, artificially deformed, features rebuilt and painted forming mask, with wig, on wooden display stand, from Malekula, New Hebrides, 1871-1920

Ceremonial ancestral skull

1871-1920

Male skull without mandible, eye sockets inland with mother of pearl with pupils kept out of sentiments and for divination, from Dyke Bay, Papua New Guinea, 1830-1900. Skull is believed to be male.

Male skull without mandible

1830-1900

New Guinea trophy skull, painted, collected by Dr. Jan Saave from near Port Moresby and given to Dr. Duggan in 1967-1968, possibly made for the tourist trade

Trophy skull, New Guinea, 1967-1968

before 1967

Human skull with artificial articulation of mandible, round trephination above right orbit possibly post mortem, from Senegal, African, 1831-1925

Human skull with artificial articulation of mandible

1831-1925

Front of human skull covered with clay to form mask and coloured with black, red and white pigment, from New Britain, 1852-1920

Front of human skull covered with clay to form mask and coloured with black

1851-1920

Human skull, cranium deformed artificially by circular constriction, from South West Malekula, New Hebrides, 1851-1900

Human skull

1851-1900

Human skull, cranium artificially deformed, facial region masked with clay and fibre and painted red and blue, ritual object in ancestor worship, from New Hebrides, 1851-1900

Human skull

1851-1900

Human skull showing cranial deformation by fronto-occipital pressure, from Vancouver, Columbian River, Canadian, 1751-1910

Human skull showing cranial deformation by fronto-occipital pressure

1751-1910

Skull, youth, Papuan, with mandible c. 1700 to c. 1900

Skull, youth, Papuan

1700-1900

Human skull, with lower mandible attached by strips of cane, and wearing hoop earrings on one side, associated with ancester worship, from Solomon Islands

Human skull

1801-1910

Human skull, no lower mandible, tape loop through nose, used by thieves for divination, Indian, 1851-1900

Human skull

1851-1900

Part of human cranium, in five small pieces, possibly Saxon

Part of human cranium

449-1066 CE

Human cranium, in six pieces, possibly Saxon

449-1066 CE

Fragment of human skull pierced by bronze arrowhead, Chinese, Han Dynasty, 206BC-220AD

Fragment of human skull pierced by bronze arrowhead

206 BCE-220 CE

Part of skull showing depressed fracture, prehistoric cemetery, Gebel Moya. From a late Neolithic combined cemetery and settlement locality in south-central Sudan. It was excavated from 1911-14 over four seasons by Sir Henry Wellcome

Skull from excavation at Jebel Moya, 1911-1914

5000-1 BCE

Top of skull mounted in copper, used in Tantric rites, Tibetan, 19th century

Top of skull decoratively mounted in copper

1801-1900

Buddhist bowl of silver and human skull, Tibetan, 18th or 19th century

Buddhist bowl of silver and human skull

1701-1900

Buddhist bowl made of Lama's skull, made in Tibet in the 18th or 19th century

Buddhist bowl made of Lama's skull

1701-1900

Buddhist bowl made of Lama's skull, fine bronze lid, Tibetan, 18th or 19th century

Buddhist bowl made of Lama's skull with bronze lid and stand

1701-1900

Cover and stand for top of skull mounted in copper, used in Tantric rites, Tibetan, 19th century

Top of skull decoratively mounted in copper

1801-1900

Top of skull mounted in copper, used in Tantric rites, Tibetan, 19th century

Top of skull decoratively mounted in copper

1801-1900

Skull bowl with copper lid and stand, Tibetan, 19th century

Skull bowl with copper lid and stand

1801-1900

Bowl made from top of human skull, lined with brass, Tibetan, date uncertain

Bowl made from top of human skull

before 1937

Double headed skull drum, skin and bone, Tibetan, date unknown

Double headed skull drum

before 1932

Buddhist bowl made of human skull, Tibetan, 18th or 19th century

Buddhist bowl made of human skull

1701-1900

Skull bowl, Tibetan, 19th century

Skull bowl

1801-1900

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