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Amuletic necklace of blue glass beads interspersed with fang-shaped pendants in metal

1880-1930

Human skull with lower jaw bound with cane strips, incised decoration of forehead, from new Guinea, 1801-1900

Human skull with lower jaw bound with cane strips

1801-1900

Human skull showing artificial deformation by fronto-occipital pressure, no lower mandible, from Peru, 1801-1900

Human skull showing artificial deformation by fronto-occipital pressure

1801-1900

Human skull, headhunter's trophy, with lower jaw bound to upper and engraved design associated with females carved on forehead, Oceanic, 1801-1900

Human skull

1801-1900

Human skull, headhunter's trophy, with lower jaw attached by cane strips, cranium badly pitted, from Luzon, Philipines, 1851-1920

Human skull

1851-1920

Human skull, jaws tied, stained brown, headhunter's trophy, from Dyako of Borneo, 1851-1900

Human skull

1851-1900

Human skull, artificially elongated, face and feasures reconstructed in clay and fibre and painted red, missing teeth replaced with cane pegs, ceremonial, from Malikolo, New Hebrides, 1871-1910

Human skull

1871-1910

Human skull showing artificial deformation by frontal-occipital pressure, with separate mandible, from Guatemala, South America, 1751-1920

Human skull showing artificial deformation by frontal-occipital pressure

1751-1920

Human skull, no lower mandible, with secret Poro Society rattle, attached,from Mendiland, Sierra Leone, 1851-1920

Human skull

1851-1920

Human skull, crushed, showing artificial deformation by fronto-occipital flattening, from Peru, South America, 1751-1920

Human skull

1751-1920

Human skull, lower mandible lashed to upper woven cane, from New Guinea, 1801-1900

Human skull

1801-1900

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

Human skull, jaws bound with cane strips, incised crude pattern on forehead, kept as trophy, from New Guinea, 1801-1920

Human skull

1801-1920

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

Skull, human and male, dolichocephalic, with sword wounds, from headdress of Tasso man of Poro Secret Society, Sierra Leone, 1801-1910

Skull, human and male

1801-1910

Human skull showing artificial deformation of cranium, from Guatemala, South American, 1801-1920

Human skull showing artificial deformation of cranium

1801-1920

Human skull with lower jaw attached by cane strips, false beard and hair have been added, and twisted cane loop for carrying, consulted in times of illness, ceremonial, from Nias Island, Sumatra, 1851-1900

Human skull with lower jaw attached by cane strips

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 trophy skull, no lower jaw with sennit card through aperture in frontal bone, from Sarawak, Indonesian, 1851-1910

Human trophy skull

1851-1910