M0013693: A woman whose skull has been shaped through artificial cranial modification, Vancouver Island, British Columbia

Date:
October 1954
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About this work

Description

Reproduction of two photographs of a Koskimo First Nation woman whose skull has been shaped through artificial modification, also known as artificial deformation, or head flattening, from a Jesup North Pacific Expedition publication.

Publication/Creation

October 1954

Physical description

1 photograph
glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Terms of use

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item Open.

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

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Location of original

Wellcome Library; GB.
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