Shrunken head with long hair
- Made:
- before 1932 in Brazil
Shrunken head with long hair, decorated with strings of beetle elytra, from the Upper Amazon Region, Brazil, South America.
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A119820
- Materials:
- human hair, human skin and beetle shell (elytra)
- Measurements:
-
overall weight (estimated): x x , , .18kg
- type:
- human remains and shrunken heads
- credit:
- Wellcome Trust
