Front part of human skull
- Made:
- 1851-1910 in New Britain
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
Details
- Category:
- Ethnography and Folk Medicine
- Collection:
- Sir Henry Wellcome's Museum Collection
- Object Number:
- A656081
- Materials:
- bone, ivory, teeth, clay, fibre and shell
- type:
- mask, human remains and skull
- credit:
- Wellcome Trust
