Collection

Shrunken head with long hair

Made:: before 1931 in Ecuador

maker:: Jivaro people

Shrunken head with long hair, acquired in Ecuador

Details

Category:: Ethnography and Folk Medicine

Collection:: Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection

Object Number:: A109084

type:: human remains and shrunken heads

credit:: Wellcome Trust

Cite this page

Rights

We encourage the use and reuse of our collection data.

Data in the title, made, maker and details fields are released under Creative Commons Zero

Descriptions and all other text content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence

Download

Download catalogue entry as json

Download manifest IIIF

Our records are constantly being enhanced and improved, but please note that we cannot guarantee the accuracy of any information shown on this website.