Ethnography and Folk Medicine
1851-1910
Artificially deformed human skull built up with fibre and clay and painted red and black, ceremonial, from Malikolo, New Hebrides, 1851-1910
1851-1900
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
Human skull, artificially deformed, no lower mandible, from Malikolo, New Hebrides, 1851-1900
1871-1910
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
1700-1900
Skull, adult, artificially deformed, c. 1700 to c. 1900, Malekula Island, New Hebrides
Human skull, no lower mandible, with trephination hole in left of frontal bone, owned at one time by Crump and Brown, from New Hebrides, 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, cranium deformed artificially by circular constriction, from South West Malekula, New Hebrides, 1851-1900
1871-1900
4 human bones carved to sharp point one end, tapered and rounded the other, from Tana Island, New Hebrides, 1871-1900
Ceremonial ancestral skull of child, artificially deformed, features rebuilt and painted forming mask, with fibre string attached, from Malekula, New Hebrides, 1871-1900
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
