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Human skull, no lower mandible, with carrying band decorated with shells, ceremonial, worn as sign of mourning and in order to cure pain and disease, from Andaman Islands, India, 1871-1920

Mourning ceremonial skull

1871-1920

Human trophy skull, lower jaw lashed to upper, with incised herringbone design on forehead, and attached by sennit cord to wooden double-pronged hook carved in form of unfinished, Janus headed figure, from New Guinea, 1871-1920

Human trophy skull

1871-1920

Articulated skeleton with phrenological skull inscribed in French, attached, European, 19th century (see stroke records)

Skeleton with phrenological skull

1801-1900

Partial upper and lower denture, with springs, gold, ivory and human teeth, English, 1801-1850

Partial upper and lower denture, England, 1801-1850

1801-1850

Phrenological skull with articulated jaw and upper vertebrae, inscribed in French, 19th century

Phrenological skull with articulated jaw and upper vertebrae

1801-1900

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

Human skull

1851-1900

Human skull, small, with lower jar attached by sennit and missing teeth replaced by cane pegs, face reconstructed with traces of shell inlay for eyes, traces of coloured pigment, from Kokori River region, Papua Gulf, Papua New Guinea, 1851-1910

Human skull

1851-1910

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

Articulated skeleton, European, 19th century. (lacks skull - A25407/1)

Articulated skeleton

1801-1900

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

Human skull with false lower jaw, face built up with clay and fibre, false bulbous nose, decorated with red black and white pigment, ceremonial, from Malikolo, New Hebrides, 1851-1900

Ceremonial skull

1851-1900

Artificially deformed human skull built up with fibre and clay and painted red and black, ceremonial, from Malikolo, New Hebrides, 1851-1910

Artificially deformed human skull built up with fibre and clay and painted red and black

1851-1910

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

Human skull

1851-1900